NPH Honduras: Supporting Children & Families

Country Facts
NPH Mexico at a Glance

Country Facts

Understanding Honduras’s geographic and social landscape helps explain the challenges children and families face and the need for long-term, community-based support.

Area

43,278 square miles – slightly larger than Tennessee

Population

9,529,188 (2024 est.)

Languages

Spanish, Amerindian dialects

Issues

One of the poorest countries in Latin America – more than half of the population lives in poverty; has one of the world’s highest murder rates; pollution of Lago de Yojoa (the country’s largest source of fresh water); frequent, but generally mild, earthquakes; extremely susceptible to damaging hurricanes and floods along the Caribbean coast.

NPH Honduras at a Glance

Opened

November 4, 1985

Location

Rancho Santa Fe is one hour northeast of Tegucigalpa

NPH Operates

Family-style home, school (grades K – 9), medical clinic, farms, vocational workshops, special homes for severely disabled children and elderly adults. Community Programs include economic empowerment program for community youth, a temporary home for at-risk children, a daycare center for working mothers, a soup kitchen in the nearby town of Talanga, and the San José Family Center.

2024 Impact in Honduras

These 2024 outcomes reflect the impact of NPH programs in Honduras

Children and adults supported

Local people employed

K – University graduates

A thriving, bustling community less than an hour from the nation's busy capital, Rancho Santa Fe is the second oldest of the NPH homes, opening in 1985.

Children at NPH homes are provided with access to arts and crafts which not only foster a creative mindset but also encourage fine motor skills.

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Donor support makes it possible for NPH to provide long-term care, education, healthcare, and family programs for children and families in need.

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Interesting facts

Program Highlights in Honduras

Rancho Santa Fe, the main home, is a vast wooded oasis in the hills – a metropolis in comparison to the surrounding quiet pueblos.
To meet the needs of the physically impaired, vital improvements have been made, such as remodeling five homes, constructing wheelchair accessibility paths/ramps, and expanding their therapy services.
Casa de los Ángeles in Tegucigalpa provides a loving home and round-theclock care to severely disabled children.
Casa Eva at Rancho Santa Fe (the main site) is home to elderly adults who have no family to care for them.
Casa Mi Esperanza in Catacamas provides a temporary home for at-risk children while a safe and permanent living situation is found.
Pasos Pequeñitos in a residential neighborhood of Tegucigalpa provides education, therapy, and nutrition for children up to age 8 whose single parents are working or furthering their education.
The NPH OneFamily program reintegrates and supports youth from the NPH home who are now able to live with their biological families.
San José Family Center in Mata de Plátano provides vulnerable children, adolescents, and families with tutoring, therapies, youth
empowerment, healthcare, and nutritional assistance.
Holy Family Surgery Center provides outpatient services for NPH children and the rural poor as well as medical training.
Approximately 27% of all the food eaten in the home is grown or produced on the ranch, including 60% of meat, 10% of fruit and
vegetables, and 100% of the milk and dairy products.