Scholarship Program

We work closely with the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras and Deanery of Yuscaran. Our Spiritual Advisor in-country is The Reverend Dagoberto Chacon, who also serves as our Honduras Education Coordinator. Reverendo Dagoberto, together with Reverenda Lourdes del Carmen Herrera, work closely with the villages we serve. They know the families as well as the village teachers and community leaders. They and other leaders in each village carefully select students for enrollment in our Education Program. The child selected in a family for further education is frequently the one who earned the highest grades during the elementary education terms, and it is a painful selection process to watch as parents choose who among their children will and will not get this opportunity.

The students are interviewed, and the selection team completes an assessment of each student considering the child’s ability to satisfy academic requirements as well as the student’s character and behavior. The Honduran team works closely with the U.S. Honduras Good Works Education Committee. However, we take our direction from the onsite Honduras team.

Honduras Good Works then provides the financial resources to cover the fees, transportation, books and uniforms for students enrolled in the school year. We know that the best way to make a lifelong difference for a rural Honduran youth is to make it possible for him or her to continue their education past the sixth grade.