Making Strides Towards Self-Sustainability

In the past year, we’ve made incredible strides in producing our own food and working towards self-sustainability.  This is an important value of Give Hope 2 Kids, for we try to stretch every donated dollar as far as possible. 

Producing our own food also gives meaningful work to our Honduran staff and is something for them to teach our kids.  We want to raise up good workers and not people who have their hand out, expecting life to given to them.

We have a new agricultural expert on our Honduran team, so we’re planting more of our own food.  We recently moved the cows and sheep across the river, away since they kept eating everything we were trying to grow.

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The animals are doing really well though, even though we relocated some.  We’re able to raise a good percentage of our meat now.  We have great laying hens that produce three dozen eggs every day.  Our cows produce all our milk and most of our cheese and yogurt.  We’ll be putting in more pasture for cows though, so we can keep up with our dairy demand. 

Our best product to grow and sell for self-sufficiency is coffee.  So, we’re planting more acres in coffee and learning better growing techniques.  We've recently perfected our roast and we’re getting rave reviews on it. 

In the upcoming months, we hope to raise the funds to add some solar panels to our buildings.  We have a solar plan that should easily cover half of our electricity usage.  Since we pay more per watt than anywhere in the US, this will be a big savings for us.  

Please click here if you'd like to donate towards our solar panels.

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