Kids’ Stories

As a Director it’s sometimes hard to put into words the stories of children we receive and everything our team does day in and day out. Countless stories of loss and tragedy mixed in with the joy of hearing children’s giggles and happy squeals while playing tag. Trying to remain in the joy of knowing children are now safe from their abusers while fully acknowledging that they were abused. A few months back we received two sisters whose parents were murdered in front of them. The 9-year-old was still visibly shaking during her admission to the crisis care center from the trauma she witnessed while trying to hide her newborn sister under a table after hearing shots fired. After their arrival, the DA's office called and stated the eldest sister would need to testify against the man who killed her parents. As I drove her to the court hearing I tried to make small talk...

23 June, 2023 /

As the United States is facing an influx of immigrants from Central America, we are being affected here in Honduras as well. It actually began over a year ago. In January of 2020 the first caravan made its way from San Pedro Sula, through our region, and across the border. Since then and despite the obvious deterrents, we continue to receive large amounts of immigrant children who have been returned to Honduras.  The youngest of these children was a 1 year old who was returned to her grandparents as an unaccompanied minor.   The Reason They Are Leaving Each child who passes through our doors has a story including countless teen boys whose families lost everything during the hurricanes of last year.  Most of these young men came from households where single mothers struggled to provide for their children, and the boys had witnessed their younger siblings sleeping in makeshift tents alongside the road and...

08 April, 2021 /

The following story is told by Madison Frank December 13th started with a phone call, as most of Legacy of Hope’s kid's stories often do. It was our friend who works in the hospital notifying us that there was a little boy who was extremely malnourished and had been brought in with no clothing or anyone to care for him....

28 April, 2018 /
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