School

School is getting ready to start in Honduras! The normal school year for the children in Honduras is mid-February through mid November.

Casa will have 8 children attending school this year and 5 attending kinder. Each child is required to wear school uniforms. They are required to wear special white button down shirts with navy blue dress pants or skirts and black shoes.
They also have gym days and on those days they are required to wear
navy blue wind suit pants with white stripes or navy blue sweatpants with a white plain t-shirt and white tennis shoes.

The children are also required to buy all of their materials for school....the teachers do not provide anything that they need. The notebooks that they use are special notebooks and cannot be purchased in the States.
The children also have monthly fees that they have to pay that will help pay for someone to cut the grass, someone to clean the classrooms, or maybe for a school repair. So for the elementary students this is L20 or $1.00 a month each and for the kindergarten students that is L50 or $2.50 a month in fees for them to attend school.
Also they have special fees for activities through out the year. An average of $10 per child per year in special activities is required.

This all adds up to an average cost per child for school for a year is about $60.00 in clothing and $10.00 in school age fees and $30.00 in kindergarten fees per child a year and $10 special activities......that is $100 a year per kindergarten and $80 a year per school age child. If you are not able to give the full amount of $100 anything is appreciated.

Anyone willing to sponsor a child for school will receive a picture of them and give you a personal update about them and give you an email address to keep in contact with them thru out the school year.
Anyone interested please email karendvaughan@gmail.com

Thank you for helping us make a difference!

I will be sure to post pictures of their first day of school on Monday the 11th.