- Messages
- 10,951
- Reaction score
- 4,146
- # of dives
- None - Not Certified
click on Roatan Childrens Fund | Fundraising Calendar to order
A nice calendar full of Roatan images, old and new... above and below the water. It supports the Children's Home.
Here's what the 2007 calendar looked like: http://www.k8smate.com/images/RCF_Calendar/RoatanChildrensFundCalendar2007.pdf It has since become even more an island-wide view!
Roatan Children's Fund is a public benefit non-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. Specifically, this organization will seek to advance education and provide relief to poor, distressed, and underprivileged children living in Roatan, Honduras. Our support will help with various needs including schooling, transportation, uniforms, food, electricity, repairs, clothing and other necessary supplies. 100% of all monetary donations go directly to help support the children of Roatan. All administrative costs are paid by a private donor and all staff are volunteers.
We have identified six recipients at this point, the Majken Broby Children's Home, the Arnaldo Auld School in Gravel Bay, Familias Saludables in Coxen Hole, the Jose Santos Guardiola School in Punta Gorda, the Arobia Alexander Welcome School in Los Fuertes, and Miss Betty's English School in French Cay. Other schools or organizations with a focus on children under the age of 18 are eligible for our services under this program. Our primary empasis is on education, healthcare, nutrition, and improving living conditions. Our goals for the Majken Broby Children's Home are to educate all the children up to the age of 18, provide clean drinking water, provide preventative medical and dental care, provide clean clothes to attend school, and quality nutrition. Our goals for the Schools are to provide school supplies such as books, notebooks, pencils, and craft items. We also will strive to improve the physical structures of the school facilities.
In order to assure that our distributions are used strictly in furtherance of our purposes, one board member will visit the premises at least once a month. In between visits, we will get updates from various volunteers visiting the island. We will only make payments directly to service providers. No cash will be paid nor will any money be paid to any of the directors or officers of our organization. We may, however, pay for additional employees or medical personnel that we will pay directly.
We chose Roatan, Honduras because we are a group of people already connected with Roatan either through scuba dive vacations, home ownership on Roatan, or businesses on the island. Honduras is the poorest republic in Central America. Honduras has an estimated per capita income of $3000 and an unemployment rate of 27%, with over 50% of the population living in poverty. On Roatan, as in many other Central American countries, there is a huge discrepancy in income with a few people living quite well and most living in extremely adverse conditions with no running water, sewer hookups, or cooking facilities. Since Roatan is a very small island with only a few large centers of population, it has been easy to locate children in need. As a group we have been helping this population for years with the help of a very popular scuba dive resort on the island.
