When we started our work in Honduras, the families there had one dream – for children like Tatiana to be educated to break out of their cycle of poverty. Our dream was to have every one of the initial 74 children gathered along that dusty road sponsored. The mission of Sharefish evolved from trips to build homes […]
As we were walking through El Carrizo a few years ago, we noticed a young girl named Genesis playing. As we got closer, we realized her “toys” were bottle caps. She had no toys, no books, and no opportunity to break the cycle of poverty in her family. It was children like Genesis that inspired […]
You can see the hope in Yeilin’s face. It’s that hope we saw in her and so many children that launched Sharefish. We knew that hope was for opportunities in life, and we knew those opportunities depended on education. In El Carizzo, most students would end their education after elementary school, virtually guaranteeing a life […]
Beberlyn was 9 years old in January 2009. A quiet shy girl, she lived with her family in a stick and mud house in El Carrizo, Honduras. She suffered from severe asthma attacks, which left her frail and reserved. She loved school, and was preparing to start fourth grade, but she knew that she would […]
All of our lives have been disrupted this year with pestilence, despair, and fear. Even here in the US, where we have massive economic resources and well-developed medical and emergency relief infrastructures, we have suffered from the economic, social, and emotional effects of the pandemic. In Honduras, among the poorest countries in the world, those […]
Three years ago, Sharefish delivered 6 sewing machines to the community in El Carrizo and taught a group of women how to sew. One of the women, Xiomara, was such a quick learner that she started classes to teach other women to sew. A small group of these women, led by Xiomara and supported by […]
Over the past six years, we have traveled to El Carrizo once a quarter. While this has been enough to build trust and relationships, we realized to make a larger impact we would need a more consistent presence. On our most recent visit to the village, we were excited to introduce our first full-time employee, Lizzy […]
In June 2012, I went for my second time to El Carrizo, Honduras with eight other Sharefish volunteers to work in a medical clinic. The mission was to see all the children in the area and the adults who needed some type of specific health care. We carried enough vitamins for 300 kids to have […]
More than a year ago the Sharefish Board of Directors approved a project to acquire land in El Carrizo to build a community learning center. This would be a place that could focus our efforts to reach deeper into the community through a center with books, computers, games and other learning tools to enhance the […]
In deciding what to get their kids for Christmas one year, Veronica and Carlos looked at the toys already filling their home and realized more toys were not what their family needed. So when their kids opened their gifts, they found pictures of Alma Lizzette and David Gerson – the two Honduran children that were […]
