[Private Photo - by Volunteer to Honduras]
Many of the folks who live in the remote rural areas of Honduras live on very little money and most do not ever get any sort of real education. Some of this is now changing due to the help of missionaries and volunteer organizations visiting the beautiful country each year. Still so much more needs to be done. Statistics indicate that the literacy rates are rising drastically and each year this becomes less and less of an issue.
Children often go to elementary school and then stop to work in the fields. The ones in the city will go to high school or college. They need transportation to get to a school as they often have to walk miles to get to school. More schools must be built and they need to teach the basics of how to build things and help themselves, as well as job skills and hygiene. Reading and writing will continue to help provide a better standard of living and quality of life in rural Honduras.
Since Hondurans are hard-working, loving people and tough enough to live in the hills with hardly any assistance, a little education will certainly go a long way. More and more volunteers are going to teach and helping train new teachers too. Of course more teachers are needed to train the locals in rural Honduras so they can in-turn teach their villages to read and write.
Building new schools and supplying them with desks, books and teaching tools is a job that many large non-profit organizations are now doing. Each year more and more is done and the progress is well documented thanks to all the volunteers.