Las Flores,
Comayagua
The main campus for Mission Honduras, where Fr. Emil
resides, is about one and a quarters hours northwest of
Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Today, over 500
children live or attend school at this site. Much of the
school is under reconstruction.
-APUFRAM headquarters
-Maximilian Kolbe Institute (junior and senior high)
-Taller (carpentry trade school)
-Internado San Francisco de Asisi (boystown)
-Santa Ana (girlstown)
-Chapel
-Clinic
-Agriculture
El Conejo,
Comayagua
Just a few miles more along the main highway, we have a
community at Conejo. At the Guadalupe Center for Girls over
50 girls, ages 5-12 years-old, live and attend school.
There are individual homes, each accommodating eight girls
and a house mom. The grade school also accepts about 25
students from the surrounding area.
The Margarita Cook
Center for Abandoned Women and Their Children (a.k.a. “The
Moms Project”) is
dedicated to providing shelter and food to women and their
children in need, as well as opportunities to educate both
mothers and their children.
The Volunteer Center,
Casa de St. Thérèse de Lisieux, was opened in June of 2002 and is
capable of housing over 50 short-term missionary volunteers
plus the long-term staff.
Five miles from Flores near La Villa, we have
San Antonio
de Padua Center for Boys, an orphanage & elementary school,
which is home to over 100 boys ages 5–12 years old. These
boys live in dormitory style homes, with house moms or
house dads. In addition, there is a school on the site
where all boys are required to attend classes. Girls and
boys from the surrounding area can also attend school.
-Orphanage for boys
-Elementary school
-Fish project
-Mahogany farm
La Barca,
Yoro
We have a little over 200 acres of land on which we have
built our City of Children, which opened in early 2002.
Some 83% of the youth in Honduras do not go beyond the 3rd
grade. This project prepares 4th, 5th, and 6th graders to
go on to one of our junior high schools. We especially
target as students the very poor children who have been
dislocated by Hurricane Mitch, as well as children living
in houses along the roads and in the poorest sections of
San Pedro Sula. The houses from which these children come
have dirt floors, and are without plumbing and electricity.
A new housing building is currently under construction.
Agricultural projects are also underway.
La Campana and La
Campana II, Cortes
At
La Campana and La Campana II, we have a junior high school
here with about 80 students. We also have some 20 acres of
land on the other side of the river on which we will soon
plant African Palm and build and student house. We have two
fulltime pastoral workers here building up the Catholic
Community.
Toyos, El
Progresso
We have a boystown and junior high school on 15 acres near
Toyos. There are over 30 internal students and some 150
students in the junior high. We have recently built an
additional classroom and hall for the students.
-Senior High
-Junior High
-Boystown
-Agriculture: chili peppers, coconuts, pineapples, liches,
oranges, papayas, chocolate, chickens
Salama,
Colon
At this location we have senior and junior high schools for
about 100 students. Currently we operate a small boystown
for 20 boys. We have some 140 head of cattle. The African
Palm planted here supports the high schools to some extent.
-Senior high
-Junior high
-Boystown
-African palm farm
-Cattle operation
Chachaguela,
Cortés
We recently built a two-story house on the Caribbean, which
is used by all of APUFRAM and other organizations for
retreats. For many children of the mission, a retreat here
is their first exposure to the sea. There is a chapel plus
a house for a caretaker/pastoral worker and family. The
pastoral worker does full-time pastoral work in the
immediate area. There are plans for expansion of this
site.
San José, La
Paz
-Boystown
-Junior high (government run)
-Agriculture: coffee, banana, African palm
Tegucigalpa, Francisco
Morazán
We have three houses for university students who attend the
National University. There is no dormitory system like in
the US.
La Ceiba,
Atlántida
We have houses, which are able to house up to 24 university
students. We currently have eleven students in La
Ceiba.