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Giving Tuesday Update
We want to thank YOU for joining the global celebration of generosity during last week’s Giving Tuesday campaign. We are excited to share that with your help we raised $3,600 and GlobalGiving matched your donations, giving a grand total of $4,873 ($1,100 for education, $1,100 for scholarships and $1,400 for nutrition)! In 2024 we will continue impacting …
Imaginative Lego Minds
Dear Donor, Happy Giving Tuesday! This past year, your support helped expand STEM education and programming in the frontera of Honduras. Today only, GlobalGiving is matching donations around the world as part of their #MoveAMillion campaign. The more we raise, the more we get from the $1.2 MILLION in bonus funds. On Friday we wrote about the LEGO gift that keeps giving. Thanks to donor generosity, …
The LEGO Gift that Keeps Giving
One year ago, donors Sally and her students, sorted, packaged and sent LEGO kits down to Honduras. With their support, we assisted our regional LEGO teams in preparing for that year’s competition. Since there were kits still remaining in 2023, our team had an idea. They released an announcement to our learning comunities — We would accept …
Equipped to Finish Strong
We are nearing the end of another school year with our students! Our program continues to support each participant as we wish them well in finishing strong. Our program coordinator, Nelly Milla, conducted a second distribution of supplies to each high school right before Honduran independence day festivities started (September 16th). Students who are in …
Fundraising Success
Our participation in the week-long Little by Little campaign has successfully come to an end. Thanks to you, we were able to hatch more hope for families like those whose story we shared – twins, Rosa and Daisy and working mother, Lucia and her children. You helped donate $960 and thanks to GlobalGiving’s matching we …
Each Egg Secures a Meal
We are halfway through the Little by Little campaign week. Thanks to GlobalGiving, when you donate up to $50, your generosity will be matched at 50%. Our goal is to raise 20 - $50 donations, each donation will provide half a year of eggs to a child. Each egg is so important and helps secure a meal to …
Twin’s Favorite Food
This week, we are excited to campaign together with GlobalGiving during the Little by Little Campaign. With just $50, we can provide half a year of eggs to 1 child and our goal is to raise 20 - $50 donations. PLUS from today until Friday, GlobalGiving will match online donations up to $50 at 50%, making your …
A Scholarship Helps Two Sisters
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator During my recent trip to Honduras I was able to talk to some youth from our scholarship program and I wanted to share a story about the impact of your commitment to our student's education in rural Intibuca, Honduras. Meet Eva, she is an eight grade student who was …
Thank You for Supporting Student like Antonio
Dear Donors, Thank you for supporting our fundraising efforts on this past July Bonus Day! We shared with you Antonio’s incredible quest to return to school and keep studying in our bilingual high school track, which included him selling his cell-phone to buy school supplies. We are ecstatic to report that with your help we …
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Antonio’s Trade for School
Meet Antonio, a colegio bilingual track student. When the pandemic hit in 2020 he dropped out. Yet, I often saw him walking back his classmates from school - he stood out without a uniform. I did not think much of this, but on our director's most recent trip she reported Antonio had returned to school! Nervous, but confident he sought our …
Igniting the Reading “Spark”
By Minsis Ramos - Assistant Director We are pleased to tell you about a NEW CHAPTER in our book of continued commitment to foster reading! As our education team continues trekking towards providing a wholesome education for our students, we created a partnership with Proyecto Chispa or "Project Spark." This non-profit in Honduras focuses on providing books …
Mayors Lay Bricks for Sustainability
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Our Team Meets with Intibuca Mayor to Collaborate Kolibri is being recognized by local government as effective in engaging and supporting resource limited schools with quality offline content. When we received our 2021 grant from the Inter-American Development Bank, our education program was able to reach 51 new schools …
Testing the Waters with Nava
Nava (left) collects water sample By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator This spring we had the privilege of welcoming back third-time volunteer, Nava Barman. When he first arrived in 2017, Nava shares how our mountainous region was reminiscent of "my family's hometown in Northeast India,"- which is one of the reasons he has enjoyed returning. Now …
Fundraising Campaign End Updates
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Scholarship student and mother 2 weeks ago, you played a vital role in our participation of GlobalGiving's Little by Little fundraising campaign. By joining 21 fellow donors both our nutrition and scholarship program received your support. In total you raised $1,547 and with GlobalGiving's help we received $448 in matching, totalling …
Little x Little for Scholarships
Dear Donor, There are TWO more days left to take part in GlobalGiving’s Little by Little Campaign where little acts of kindness can make a BIG difference. This campaign we are aiming to fund a 1-year scholarship for 6 high school students by raising 25, $50 donations. Alone, our goal may seem impossible—but together, we can accomplish anything. …
Scholarship Donation Match Alert
Dear Donorfirst, GlobalGiving’s weeklong Little by Little fundraising for our scholarship students is happening from today until Friday. We are aiming to raise 25, $50 donations to provide a year scholarship for SIX high school students. ALL online donations up to $50 at 50% will be matched. Meet Daniela, as a part of our grandfathered scholarship program, she received …
Help Little by Little
Dear Donor, Mark your calendars! Because starting Monday GlobalGivings’ Little by Little campaign will allow your small donation to shine. April 3-7, we’re celebrating the BIG difference little acts of kindness can make to the lives of our scholarship students. We will be highlighting TWO recent graduates so you can hear the impact of the …
Volunteering “Across the Pond” in Honduras
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Jake, Oli, Minsis (StS Asst. Director) and Jasmine Another school year in Honduras is well underway, and we are excited for a new partnership with Project Trust! As an organization, they connect gap-year students (high school graduates, taking a year off before university) from the United Kingdom with partners abroad. Project …
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Eggs: Enticing Mothers to Come to the Health Center
By Laura Failla Manship - Executive Director Mothers, fathers, and children at health center For the past two years, we have been writing about two of the benefits of our "Hens Hatching Hope: Un Huevo Cada Dia" project. Those are:(1) Eggs provide much needed nutrients to the target group of children from 6 months of …
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Investing in our Scholars
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Robert, Yeimy and their family As a new school year is quickly approaching, we reflect on our students' accomplishments in 2022. With your help, 19 scholarship recipients graduated from high school in 2022. We are excited to have another generation of youth who are reaching their goals and defying …
Growing Alongside Us
Each of our projects in Honduras provide individuals with opportunities… to learn, to grow, to improve their futures, and to believe in themselves. Our Hens Hatching Hope program is wrapping up its third year. When we first started, we were not sure if we would get past year one. We have truly been amazed at the support over these crucial years …
2022: Continued Success
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Student at Reading Competition Dear Donor,We are in awe of how quickly another school year has come to a close and with it a reflection of many successes in our team's work. Alongside teachers, the Intibuca Education department and local mayors, we have accomplished so much and cannot wait …
A Water Filter ($25) Helps them Grow
Dear Donorfirst, Today is GIVING Tuesday. Shoulder to Shoulder joins thousands of organizations around the world on this day of giving. In our most recent report for Hens Hatching Hope we interviewed mothers on how the project was going. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, yet we found out that children are getting sick due to inaccess to clean water. …
Black Friday ….then Giving Tuesday
Dear Donor, With the holiday season now in full swing, you may find yourself busy scrolling all weekend or stopping by the stores to find the best deals for the gifting season. We at Shoulder to Shoulder are also busy thinking of the children in Intibuca and how we can gift them another season of …
Alexis 5 years post-FIRST Global
Dear Donor, Our Robotics team just returned to Honduras from Geneva, Switzerland This was our 6th year participating in the FIRSTGlobal international challenge. Meet Alexis – a member of our 2017 team, who is now a mentor, and even accompanied our students to Geneva. Alexis is currently completing his undergraduate degree in computer science engineering. He began …
Hearing From Our Mother Hens
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Mothers and their children With every egg that is given, we see a child grow. Yet, the program is successful because the mothers come to a monthly appointment where their children are weighed and measured, and then they receive eggs to cook at home. Our "Mother Hens" are an …
Our Team is Back From Geneva
After two days of travelling back to Honduras and recovering from jetlag, our FIRST Global team is basking in the great competition that they underwent in Geneva. As many of our students have never even travelled outside of our department, the new environment, the stress, and the excitement put our students' focus to the test …
Preparing Professionals Who Give Back
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Students digging trench at STEM Center We are now halfway through the school year, and our scholarship students have been refreshed with a package of supplies to help them finish up the year. Our scholarship coordinator, Nelly, continues to meet with the five colegios to assess any pending needs which …
Lend a Robotic Hand to Honduras
Dear Donor, This week we’re celebrating the power of the crowd for GlobalGiving’s Little by Little campaign. From today until Friday, GlobalGiving will match online donations up to $50 at 50%. Little acts of kindness will have an extra BIG impact — here we share a recent story of a robotics donation. Our LEGO Robotics Regional competition …
Baleadas + Sports = Robotics?
Dear Donor, TODAY is the last day to get your donation (up to $50) matched at 50% for GlobalGiving’s Little By Little campaign! You may ask yourself, why do Baleadas plus Sports equal Robotics? With our regional LEGO competition quickly approaching, the students of the San Antonio colegio knew they needed to raise funds for …
Tablets Meet the Textbook & Technology Gap
Dear Donor, With classrooms open full-time for the first time since the pandemic, teachers are excited to resume use of tablets with students. Why? Because 1 tablet helps meet many needs. Among a few… It ensures textbook access in communities that often do not get any. It increases student’s comfort level with technology, preparing them as …
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Our Hens Are Hatching MORE Hope
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Children receiving their eggs We are halfway through 2022 and our nutrition project has now been running successfully for 18 months. In that time we have served 300 children between the ages of 6 to 24 months.Hens Hatching Hope started as a simple idea of providing one egg a …
Filling Backpacks with the Opportunity to Continue Studying
By Mariela Rodriguez - Communications Coordinator Concepcion scholarship recipients 2022 The 2022 school year is in full swing with much excitement as schools are meeting fully in-person for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic! Students are shifting gears in doing schoolwork from printed packets with limited interaction - to participating in class …
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What the Robotics Program Means to Edson
By Edson - High School Student on Robotics Team Minsis and Edson This Thank You letter was written by Edson, a student member of the First Global Robotics Team of Honduras. During the whole process he had a positive attitude and willingness to work, and that led to him being chosen as the outstanding student …
Many Hands Make Light Work
Dear Donor, The school year in Honduras is from February to November. Thanks to the generosity of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) we distributed 3,500 tablets and 120+ computers during the 2021 school year. Also, 1,000 tablets that were donated by the USA Embassy, which we also distributed. In 2022, we will continue to work …
Reading: A Window Into the World
By Nely Vasquez (with Jessy Molina) - Reading Coordinator Scholarship Students Participate in Reading Club Nely: It started with a small reading contest back in 2019 with 4th-6th graders. They all would look for books at the bilingual school library and because that was the first contest, they were reading like CRAZY. The second year, during the …
Hens Hatching Hope Honored
By Laura Manship - Executive Director Hens Hatching Hope Shoulder to Shoulder is thrilled to announce that we were chosen as GlobalGiving’s October 2021 PROJECT OF THE MONTH for our Hens Hatching Hope: Un Huevo Cada Dia program!Our work in providing micro-loans to women so that they can raise hens was selected from a pool of more than 5,000 …
Tablets Bring Dropped-Out Students Back to School
By Edel Andino - Information Technology Director Father signing so daughter can take tablet home. We are pleased to say that in 2021, we delivered 3500 computer tablets to 51 junior/senior high schools.To begin, I want to talk about students dropping out of school. Many of the students who had dropped out, or were in …
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Delivery of Educational Materials
By Nelly Milla Milla - Scholarship Coordinator Nelly delivering materials to scholarship students April and May 2021: I held meetings with parents and student beneficiaries of the scholarship program, in the municipalities of: San Antonio, Camasca, Magdalena and Concepción. In the municipality of Santa Lucia, no meeting was held due to the restriction measures against …
$10 a month = 2 computer tablets
Dear Donor, From December 13th through 17th, GlobalGiving will make a 200% match on your first monthly donation. Why? Because GlobalGiving knows that recurrent donations are vital for nonprofits. Your monthly donation is a partnership with Shoulder to Shoulder to continue making education affordable and accessible to Honduran youth. Without education, there is no future. The only …
Almost at the End of our First Year
By Laura Manship - Executive Director Maria, her baby, and her hens It's hard to believe -- but we're almost at the end of our first year of Hens Hatching Hope: Un Huevo Cada Dia.We started this project in January 2021. This is what we have accomplished so far: - 25 women, in 25 different …
Give a Computer Tablet
Dear Donor, Eighth grade student, Jessica, was thrilled to receive a tablet from her teacher. The tablet was loaded with the Honduran curriculum for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Now, even though students only attend classes two days per week (due to the covid pandemic), the teacher can assign work to Jessica, and she can …
Working with the US Embassy to Enhance Education
By Richard E Buten - President, Board of Directors StS and US Embassy in Honduras working together The United States Embassy in Honduras and Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc., work with the Honduran Ministry of Education to bring digital learning to rural HondurasThe U.S. Embassy Honduras, Public Affairs Section provided $110,000 in funding to Shoulder to …
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Help Carmen Purchase Hens
Carmen is a 48 year old widow. Her husband died 5 years ago. She has two older children, who moved to other parts of Honduras to find work. That leaves Carmen alone with her 7 year old daughter. Carmen's older children live far away and have families of their own. Carmen did not want to …
Belinda’s Hens
Belinda is a 29 year old woman, with a husband and 3 daughters. Her husband works as a laborer on a neighbor's small plot of land. For each day he works, he receives pay of $5. But, the work is not steady.....there is only work for him about when the neighbor needs him. There are …
My Recent Trip to Honduras
By Laura Failla Manship - Executive Director Marela likes the daily egg she receives. Dear Friend:Greetings from Honduras. I just returned to the US from a two week trip to Honduras. I had a busy, but very enjoyable, time. I was excited to go and visit two of the women who are raising hens, and …
Scholarship Student Places 2nd in Reading Contest
By Nely Vasquez - StS Educational Advancement Assistant Carmen is 2nd place winner in Reading Contest Carmen is a seventh grader in Hector Orlando Gómez Cisneros high school, in Magdalena, Intibucá. She is one of the many students who is able to stay in school, thanks to the assistance she receives from the StS Scholarship …
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Elvin’s Passion for Reading
By Nely Vasquez - StS Educational Advancement Assistant Second grader, Elvin Little by little we are seeing the results of the seeds we are planting in our reading program.Meet Elvin -- a student at our bilingual school. Two years ago, I was the teacher's assistant in the preschool classroom. There I met Elvin -- who …
Letter of Thanks from a Scholarship Student
By Laura Manship - Executive Director Scholarship Recipient D.A. Dear Supporters of StS' Scholarship Program:The letter below was written by one of the students in our scholarship program. It has been translated from Spanish into English. When I read what D.A. wrote, it made me realize how very important these scholarship funds are to the …
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Delivering Eggs During a Pandemic
By Laura Manship - Executive Director Vicenta, Granddaughter, and Hens Dear Friends:In the photo above, you will see a very happy business woman. Vicenta raises chickens and sells the eggs to Shoulder to Shoulder (StS). StS then provides the eggs to mothers who have children between the ages of 6 months and 2 years. Vicente …