La Paz, Honduras

Project Specific Activities:

• Promote leadership skills, team building and youth empowerment through environmental activities.
• Partner with local youth to run camps for 5-12 year old children.
  
• Collaborate with community members on the planning and implementation of a community based initiative (CBI).
• Some volunteers will work with members of the Escuela Para la Formación Ciudana, a group of young local Hondurans who are implementing social awareness projects in La Paz.
  

Project Area:

All host communities are located within four hours of La Paz. The department/state of La Paz is located in central western Honduras, two hours northwest of Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital. Staff headquarters will be in the department’s capital, La Paz, a small and quiet city with a population of 17,000 located on the southern edge of the Comayagua Valley. All Volunteers will be in communities located in the mountains.

The mountain communities are located to the west and south of the city. In June and July the weather is warm during the day (in the 60s and 70s) and cooler or cold at night depending on the altitude. During these months it is also the rainy season.

Take a Photo Tour of La Paz

Project History:

Honduras was the first country AMIGOS ever visited in 1965, when almost 300 Volunteers provided human immunizations against polio. For the next 17 years (except 1974), AMIGOS Volunteers worked on immunization, eyeglass distribution, animal health, well digging, and community sanitation projects in 13 of the 18 departments of Honduras.

After time away during the 1980s due to economic and political instability, AMIGOS returned in 1993 to Lempira to participate in community sanitation, dental hygiene education and environmental programs until 1998. AMIGOS first worked Plan in the region of La Paz in 2003 and then returned in 2008.  

Partner Agencies:

Plan International Honduras

Further Actions:

• Apply to Volunteer
• Photos from the 2008 La Paz, Honduras Project