Intibucá, Honduras

Project Specific Activities:

• Promote leadership skills, team building and youth empowerment through environmental activities.

• Partner with local youth to run camps for 5-12 year old children focusing on environmental issues (e.g. water cycle, trash pick-up, deforestation).

• Collaborate with community members on the planning and implementation of a community based initiative (CBI)

Project Area:

Intibucá is located in a mountainous region near the border with El Salvador and about 3.5 hours west of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Intibucá is a beautiful, temperate region. It is green and mountainous with gorgeous views and many small rivers that cut through the valleys. La Esperanza, the staff headquarter city, and nearby communities lie in a transition zone between pine forest and tropical areas, providing a mixture of deciduous trees, evergreen pines and tropical palm-like trees.

Take a photo tour of Intibucá

Project History:

Honduras was the first country AMIGOS ever visited in 1965, when almost 300 Volunteers provided human immunizations against polio. For the next 17 years (except 1974), AMIGOS Volunteers worked on immunizations, eyeglass distribution, animal health, well digging, and community sanitation projects in 13 of the 18 departments of Honduras.

AMIGOS worked in Intibucá from 1997 to 2004 and returned in 2009.  AMIGOS will continue to partner with Save the Children in 2010.

Partner Agencies:

Save the Children

Plan International - Honduras

Further Actions: 

• Apply to Volunteer
• Photos from the 2008 Honduras Project