Videos of the children in Honduras

I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to go on a trip over the Thanksgiving break to Honduras with a group of friends. One of my friends has a non-profit organization called Friends of Los Ninos which helps to support an orphanage and some homeless villages.

Susan Shogan, one of our amazing third grade teachers, has been to Honduras several times to help at Copprome and in the villages.  She is a huge supporter of helping these people in a variety of ways.

We collaborated with Gattis Elementary and Blackland Prairie Elementary to have an awesome Kickball Tournament in the spring of 2016.  We had fun competing in kickball as well as raising money and food for the Round Rock Serving Center and the Copprome Children's Home.

Our FCE Service Club made friendship bracelets for the children and our class wrote letters for the children in English and Spanish.

While we were there our group was able to give food (rice, beans, and lard which will feed the family for a week) to 26 families in the village at Mt. Olives. We also gave clothing, holiday presents, and a trip to the movies to the children at Copprome Children's Home. We played games, helped with homework, danced, blew bubbles, drew pictures, and wrote letters.

Another group from Tennessee also helps support the orphanage and made some videos on youtube. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g6bc3IK4oI&feature=autoplay&list=ULgNjBSNjIBIU&playnext=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8DfzN5bik

Here is the link to the website of the non-profit organization that organized my trip.
http://www.friendsoflosninos.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=62

Thank you to the FCE Service Club for helping make friendship bracelets. The children loved them. They also enjoyed the pictures and the papers with drawings and words in English and Spanish. Trying to pronounce the words in English was challenging for them but they loved it.

Thank you to our 4th grade class for writing bi-lingual letters for the kids. They loved seeing your photos and your beautiful artwork and worked hard to try to read the letters in English. Many of the children wrote back to us in Spanish.

Our class and the FCE Service Club will continue to look for ways to help the children in Honduras and let them know that Tejas really does mean friend.

We are writing letters to the children and will use Google translate to help us write in Spanish.

https://translate.google.com/

For the past three years, Forest Creek Elementary School students collected flip flops to benefit the children of the orphanage and the people in the villages. We collected over 200 pairs of flip flops each year and The Friends of Los Ninos organization took the flip flops to Honduras on their summer trips.

Thank you to all the families of Forest Creek for your support of the children around the world.