FIVE CONTAINERS WERE RECENTLY SENT TO PIMIENTA FOR COVID-19 & HURRICANE-RELATED HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

NEW SENIOR CENTER IN PIMIENTA AIDS MANY ELDERLY HONDURANS

 This is opening day (August 2019) of a new Senior Center.  Anyone over 65 in the Municipio of Pimienta can receive 3 meals a day at this Center. The government has provided money for 90, but there are closer to 200. Many seniors in Honduras do not have family to assist them and lack adequate food and shelter. WOM is working to provide support to this important cause.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE

At the end of the academic year, WOM reaches out to local elementary schools and high schools to ask for donations of gently used school supplies. Area schools are kind enough to collect items such as rulers, notebooks, folders, markers, and crayons. WOM volunteers gather to organize and package these school supplies, which are then placed on a shipment to Honduras and distributed to the schools in need. Last year, over 20 area schools participated in the end of the year, used school supplies drive. The supplies collected resulted in four pallets full of school supplies for the students of Honduras.

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CLEAN WATER

In 2010 group members founded the nonprofit organization, Primero Agua, www.primeroagua.org, to place more emphasis on improving the health of Hondurans through the drilling of wells.

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CONTAINERS

WOM sends four to eight 40-foot containers of humanitarian aid annually to be used and distributed in Honduras. Containers are packed with various donations.  At times, specifically-focused collections are made when group members are aware of needs in Honduras.

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