It means making a commitment to donate a certain amount of money to room, board, and education for a person in one of our programs. You can do this as an individual or as a group. As a sponsor, you may correspond with a particular person in one of our programs. The correspondence will be translated for you if necessary. The child who you are sponsoring will write to you from time to time. Once a year you will receive a picture of the person you are sponsoring.

Your sponsorship money is used to pay for the education, room and board of the individuals in our programs.

No, the money you send as sponsorship for a child does not go directly to that child. We cannot, in good conscience, allow a student who has more supportive sponsors to eat better, to be housed better, or to receive a better education than a student who has less supportive sponsors. Therefore, sponsorship monies go into a general fund that supports all of the students.

The child that you are assigned is your personal link to Mission Honduras International, and you become that child's link to the greater world. The child will feel gratified that you have chosen to take a particular interest in his or her well-being. Through your correspondence you will feel how they see the world and the student will get an impression of what life is like outside of Honduras.

Mission Honduras has volunteers in Chicago who handle sponsorship, accounting, and volunteer recruitment activities.

No, all of the letters you send for your sponsor child should be sent to Mission Honduras in Chicago where they are sorted, processed, and sent to the mission in Honduras every three weeks. If you would like to send an additional donation, this should be done through the Chicago address as well.

Yes. We recommend something small in size and practical. The more expensive and elaborate the gift, the more of a commodity it becomes - and it could be stolen and/or sold. Some examples of appropriate gifts would be stickers, socks, small prayer books in Spanish (except Liberia), bookmarks, etc. Toys & candy are prohibited. Please do not send packages to Chicago. Send packages addressed exactly as follows:

Mission Honduras
Sponsorship Coordinator
Apartado 97
Comayagua, Comayagua 12101
HONDURAS, C.A.

Do not put the name of the child on the outside of the package, but do include the child's name on the inside the package. The Sponsorship Coordinator will make sure the package gets to your sponsor child.

Honduras is a very undeveloped country. The Mission Honduras headquarters in Flores, near Comayagua, only received a telephone line in February of 1998, and it is not reliable. There are few roads and much mountainous terrain. There are monthly meetings at which time mail and donations are distributed. Also, time has to be taken to translate letters from English to Spanish and vice versa. You can expect at least a two-month delay between the times when a letter is written and when it is received. If you are able to translate your own letters, please do so. This will cut down on the time needed to process letters.

Through thirty years of experience as a missionary, Fr. Emil has observed that personal monetary donations to a sponsored child, little as they may be, cause serious problems between those who receive money and those who do not. With your monthly donation, we are able to provide care that allows all our boys and girls to work, study, and grow in relative equity with one another - free of distractions. For this reason, we cannot accept and deliver personal monetary donations directly to your sponsored child. If you care to give more than you have agreed for a month, it will go into the general fund to be used for tuition, room, and board for all the children. When you send in your donation, please let us know if you want the extra gift to be counted toward your next month’s gift or just to be applied as an additional donation.

Please make checks payable to Mission Honduras. On the memo line of the check, please note the student's full name and the months that the payment is for. You will not receive a monthly bill for payments due. Payments may be made monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.

We will notify you of the departure of the child, try to find a child similar to the one who has left (same status, sex, grade level, etc.), and assign the new child to you.