About Dream Big Honduras

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Dream Big Honduras started 15 years ago by God leading us to a small forgotten community that lived on the outskirts of Pinalejo, Honduras. We were on a mission trip back in 2010 working with a local Pennsylvania rotary group that was providing humanitarian aid to the town. At lunch one day that week, we decided to go for a walk to see the local river. What we saw would change our lives forever…

 

We stumbled upon a small community of Hondurans that were suffering from extreme poverty. We saw families living in makeshift houses made from tarps with holes in them, old dog food bags, dirty garbage bags and primitive wood framing. We saw starving children (some kids were so hungry they had eaten parts of their mattress), and kids that were sleeping on broken mattresses and cardboard boxes. We saw sick kids with severe medical issues in-part because they were drinking and bathing in the dirty river water.  It was shocking, sad and seemed hopeless.
 

While returning from lunch, we bumped into a Honduran/American woman named Grace. She was on her way to bring some food from her own kitchen to feed these starving kids. She told us that she had been trying to help these families on her own for years, and that she had been praying that God would send her some missionaries to join her efforts.

 

Later that week, we got the chance to go with Grace to the small school where many of these children attended classes. When talking with some of the kids, we found out that many of them had Big Dreams despite their current living conditions. Some wanted to be doctors, others lawyers, and some even wanted to be missionaries themselves. 

We also saw a group of children that were full of joy and happiness even though they were sick, hungry and had no material possessions. By the end of the week, we knew that God was calling us to do something to help these kids achieve their Big Dreams. We prayed with Grace before we flew back to the states, asking God to lead and guide us in the work we had ahead of us. This was the start of Dream Big Honduras!

 

15 years later, Dream Big Honduras continues to serve the children and families of this community by offering several humanitarian programs including a high school tutorial academy operating daily in Pinalejo supporting the educational needs of over 50 kids (the majority of which are girls from 7th to 12th grade). We also run a food bank program, providing full grocery deliveries every two weeks to those kids and parents that are most in need (for example families with disabilities, the elderly, those with special needs and/or other emergency situations). We also lead Honduran mission trips 3 times a year to check-in on our kids and supporting programs, to provide dental and medical care to those in need, and to deliver thousands of pounds of donations to these families (which includes shoes, clothing, vitamins, medical, dental and educational supplies). 

 

We also have a local program called the Joy Project, where we collect and distribute blessing baskets (filled with food and holiday supplies) to hundreds of local families every year that may need a little extra support around the holidays (helping families in need in the Pine Richland and surrounding areas).