About Sponsor a Child

Our central mission is the Amigos de Jesús Children's Home located in rural Honduras. We support 140 children, youth, and young adults living on our Hogar (Home). The Hogar consists of 13 family-style homes, a bilingual school, a chapel, and facilities for agriculture, woodworking, and metalworking. 

It is $360 to sponsor a child for one year. Sponsorship contributions go towards the care of the children. Your donations support the food, clothing, shelter, and education needs of our children, but what you are really providing is stability, safety and love. 

Sponsors receive periodic updates about their child throughout the year, including an annual photo and handwritten letter from their child. Sponsors may write to their child; all correspondence goes through our U.S. office. New sponsors will receive a Welcome Packet with more information about their child and the program.

Amigos de Jesús continues to support our young adults through their University education and/or vocational training. If you are interested in supporting a university scholarship or vocational/technical education, please contact Karen Caddy at [email protected]. 

Amigos also continues full support for our young adults with disabilities. If you are interested in supporting the needs of our young adults with disabilites, please contact Karen Caddy at [email protected]. 

For the 2020-21 year, we are offering sponsors the opportunity to Sponsor a Class at Santa Monica Bilingual School located in Vida Nueva Cortés, Honduras. Sponsors will be assigned to a grade level, and metriculate with the students in that grade level each year. Classroom sponsors will receive updates throughout the year from both the teacher and the students. 

Santa Monica Bilingual School is a private school built by BECA (Bilingual Education for Central America) in partnership with the local community. Amigos de Jesús directors Amy & Wilson Escoto met BECA's then executive director at a conference in Honduras not long after the Santa Monica Bilingual School was built. A partnership was struck to build our Amigos de Jesús Bilingual School, and since then we have maintained a reciprical and supportive relationship with the BECA organization.

SMBS serves students in kindergarten through 9th grade living in the Vida Nueva community. Over the last several years, supporters of Amigos de Jesús have sponsored individual students attending SMBS. This one-to-one relationship can be difficult to maintain, as many Vida Nueva families move often to find work. This transiency means students may leave in the middle of the school year and disrupt the sponsor-to-child relationship. For this reason, we are moving our SMBS sponsorship program to the Sponsor a Class model. Sponsors currently sponsoring an individual student at SMBS may continue to do so. 

COPPROME is an acronym for Comité Progreseño Para la Proteccion al Menor; the organization’s mission is to protect the children of Honduras and their rights. Located primarily in the El Progeso area of Honduras, COPPROME currently provides services through a Providence Home, School Research Centers, and External Sponsorships.

The Providence Home provides shelter, food, education, and care to more than 40 children and teenagers. The School Research Centers are a community assistance program providing tutoring, recreational activities, and education for children from socially vulnerable neighborhoods. An average of 50 children attend these centers daily. The External Sponsorship program works to remove the barriers between a child and his/her education. The program provides families with school supplies and uniforms, and helps to fulfill additional family needs that may otherwise keep a child or teenager from attending school. This may come in the form of food support, or transportation assistance. There are more than 40 children and teens currently participating in this program.

Sister Teresita, a well-known name in Honduras, has dedicated her life to ministering to the less fortunate, particularly in El Progreso, Honduras. In 1989, with the help of U.S. supporters, Sr. Teresita opened her first children’s home in El Progreso; this was the beginning of the COPPROME organization. With funding assistance from the House of Friendship Foundation, Sr. Teresita was able to grow the COPPROME program and build two additional children’s homes, one of which was a girls’ home not far from the current Amigos de Jesús location. It was Sr. Teresita’s vision that helped create our own Amigos de Jesús Children’s Home.

Mkombozi is Swahili for ‘Redeemer;’ the primary school was constructed in 2008 by the congregation of the Sisters of the Redeemer in Tanzania. Those local to the Philadelphia area may know the Sisters of the Redeemer well -- the congregation best-known locally for Holy Redeemer Hospital is the same congregation that we refer to with a presence in Tanzania.

Mkombozi Montessori School is located in Chamazi, Tanzania, on the outskirts of Dar Es Salaam. The school serves approximately 370 students, ranging in age from 2 years old (pre-primary school) through 14 years old. It is a private school with the majority of students attending through scholarship and sponsorship agreements. Pride is a large part of the Tanzanian culture, and some parents take up jobs around the school to help offset tuition costs.

Amigos de Jesús has supported scholarships for Mkombozi students through our Sponsor a Child program since 2016.

Located in Georgetown, Guyana, St. John Bosco Boys Home has a long history of commitment and service to the community. The home originally opened its doors in 1879, and has been overseen by the Sisters of Mercy since 1902. St. John Bosco in Guyana is home to approximately 40 boys from 4 to 17 years old.

The boys attend a small primary school on the property through 6th grade, with the opportunity to continue in a local private school for secondary education. Sponsorship dollars go entirely to the boys’ education, including their proud music program.

Music is a large part of the culture and history of Guyana. Although the country is in South America, Guyana is English-speaking with a Caribbean culture. The boys of St. John’s Bosco in Guyana have their own steel drum orchestra, and the benefits of the program resonate beyond music education as the boys learn discipline, practice, and to work together.

Community and friendship are also a pillar of the culture of both Guyana and the St. John Bosco home. It is through a friendship with a Sister of Mercy that Fr. Dennis O’Donnell first came to Georgetown, Guyana more than 10 years ago. Fr. Dennis immediately connected with the community built in St. John Bosco Boys Home and recognized the same values present there as with Amigos de Jesús. Amigos de Jesús has supported sponsorships of the St. John Bosco boys ever since.