Re: Spanish tutoring through Honduras Child Alliance

[Sharon Barr]

I'll add to Anne's email that my husband and I have been doing these classes through Honduran Child Alliance for two months now and thoroughly enjoy our teachers. It's the best Spanish class bargain around!  

Sharon

Sharon Barr

267.319.2400

sharo...@gmail.com

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:41 AM Anne Krawitz <akra...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello All.

My friend Eve Horowitz is the executive director of Honduras Child Alliance, a great organization helping children gain opportunity and essential skills in El Porvenir Honduras. 

Below is their update and a link to a Spanish tutor if you would like to practice your Spanish. 

Honduras Child Alliance is ok - - but our classes have been closed since March 15. 

We have been working on making sure that we will be ready to open without volunteers when the timing is right. We've got our team of Honduran interns in training and two managers as well. (There's a newsletter going out tomorrow about one of the new managers.) This has been a bit of a blessing in disguise since we've wanted to put more Hondurans in positions of leadership for a long time, and the virus forced us to move faster. When we are able to reopen, we'll start with one location at a time and we'll only take small groups of kids. The public schools will not reopen this year (school year goes from Feb to November) so we don't know yet if we will be able to open either. If we do get permission to open (looking at mid-Sept), we're concerned that we will be swamped with kids - - hungry kids  - - and so we are working on funding to gear up for this. 

People are really hurting. There is no safety net and the restrictions that Honduras has put into place have done a good job of containing the virus but a good portion of the population has not been able to work. We've been personally sending money to be able to provide some food for families that have absolutely none. It's overwhelmingly heartbreaking since people cannot go to work but they also can't stay home with no food, etc. 

Anyway, I could go on and on - - but yeah, we are definitely still operating (not classes but other stuff) and doing a lot of planning as well.  One thing that has been really successful is that we have a program that is usually for our in-country volunteers to practice their conversational Spanish. The tutors are some of our Honduran interns and this is one of the ways that they make money. With the volunteers gone, we have moved the Spanish lessons online. Each of the interns now has an Honduras Child Alliance email address that lets them access Google Speak and we're running a little business for people who'd like a Spanish tutor.  (6 classes for $30) They're making enough money online (double HN min wage) to be able to feed their families and it's good experience for all involved. If you know anyone who may be interested, here is the link: https://honduraschildalliance.crowdchange.co/13977

Stay well,

Anne Krawitz

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