The Honduras Lab Project

Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) Honduras is an orphanage near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, that provides a permanent family and home for orphaned or abandoned children living in extreme poverty. The Honduras Lab Project is an effort to provide the 527 children at NPH Honduras with reliable Internet access and updated computers. This will hugely improve the education available to these children, and a better education today means stronger local leaders and an enriched community tomorrow.

NPH Honduras is also home to the Holy Family Surgery Center, which has treated nearly 5,000 patients who otherwise could not afford surgery since 2003. The Honduras Lab Project will develop infrastructure to allow the surgery center to share an Internet connection with the orphanage, making way for a computerized inventory system and more effective care.

This project consists of three phases:

Phase 1

NPH Honduras currently rents a satellite Internet connection, but it is expensive, unreliable, and situated far from the school and surgery center. We will establish a new satellite connection to provide affordable, reliable access where it is needed most.

Phase 2

Once an affordable, reliable Internet connection is established, we will erect long-distance WiFi antennas that will send an Internet signal from the satellite connection on the NPH Honduras campus to the surgery center, situated 1 km away.

Phase 3

For the final phase of the project, we will replace the dilapidated computers in the school lab with much newer computers. For the first time, students will have access to the Internet, along with updated educational media and software that the older computers did not support. (This is a long-term goal, and we intend to setup a demo lab consisting of a few new computers in January, and eventually build a new lab once NPH officials approve the changes.)

How you can help

To donate to the Honduras Lab Project, please follow these instructions:

1. Visit the Friends of the Orphans Donation page
2. Specify a donation amount.
3. Where it asks for Country, specify Honduras.
4. Fill out the required donor information.
5. In the Special Notes/Instructions field, please write Holy Family Surgery Center/Honduras Lab Project. This will set the donation aside for this project.

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