"We exist to serve the poor"
Private non-profits Shoulder to Shoulder and Hombro a Hombro work in tandem to achieve a single mission: to develop educational and health programs to help poor, rural communities in Honduras achieve sustainable development and improve the overall health and well being of its residents.
We seek to address the health, education, economic, and social needs of underserved communities in the poorest areas of Honduras. Shoulder to Shoulder represents successful partnerships between poor rural communities and academic health centers.
Volunteers from the U.S. include physicians, dentists, nurses, lawyers, engineers, business experts builders and students. The central theme of our partnerships is mutual growth. Every project involves the provision of health care at the level of the community. This involves working in the most remote sites, often in communities without water or electricity.
Presently, we provide primary health care and community support to over 25,000 people with clinics at four sites. We provide meals to more than 2,000 children each day. There are programs with home and community water filters, women's health, dentistry, Yo Puedo or young girls empowerment, scholarships for the brightest and poorest, and libraries for the children.
We are rapidly expanding with the addition of three new academic partnerships at three new sites, and are building a new 5,500 sq ft clinic in Concepcion. Please peruse our web page to learn more about our health initiative and how you can help.
Donate
Tax deductible contributions can be made online or mailed to:
Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc.
4754 Chapel Ridge Dr
Cincinnati, Ohio 45223
Help us fill our library for Honduras school children
In 2007, Shoulder to Shoulder opened the first library in Santa Lucia. Local schools have such a limited supply of books that children are not allowed to touch them, so the library is the only place in the community where children can actually pick up a book to read—and even check books out to take home.
Since its inception, the library has been a tremendous success. Weekly activities include story hour, geography club, life skills class, and exercise classes. During the summer, a reading club and a craft class are also offered.
Children come daily to the library to read, do crafts, color, play “Memory,” and put together puzzles. Students use the library to research different projects and check email. Adults come for exercise classes and to use the computers and internet.
In order to make space in the clinic for a maternity wing, Shoulder to Shoulder is building a new library, and we need your help to do this.
We need more books in Spanish. The library currently has 200+ books with a wish list for books posted on Amazon. Click here to donate a book from our Amazon wishlist.
For more information about the library or how to donate books or supplies, please email Mo Jennings at mjennings@shouldertoshoulder.org.
You can also help us by using our link to Amazon.com during any of your other personal purchases. Every time you start your purchase from Amazon using this link, we receive 4% of your purchase and it costs you nothing. Just be sure you start your shopping with Amazon here:
