In the month of October 2025, our Executive Director Natalia Anariba traveled to Guatemala for a week of conferences and organizational learning exchanges. In this blog, she shares her experiences and reflections.
Tag: children
5 months in Honduras: Kathi’s volunteer experience at educate.
5 months in Honduras, 5 months in Trinidad, 5 months with educate. It has been a time full of new experiences, insights and emotions. In this blog, I share how I came to volunteer at educate., what my experience was like, and some things I wish I would have known beforehand!
educate. busca Director(a) Ejecutiva/o en Honduras!
¡Estamos increíblemente emocionados de anunciar nuestra búsqueda de nuestro primer Director(a) Ejecutiva/o en el país! Siga leyendo para conocer todos los detalles: LA ORGANIZACIÓN educate. es una ONG innovadora ubicada en Trinidad, Santa Bárbara que trabaja para empoderar a niños, niñas y jóvenes en Honduras a través de la educación. Fundada en 2017, somos una … Continue reading educate. busca Director(a) Ejecutiva/o en Honduras!
Stories of Change from our Scholarship Programme: Shelsy Yolibeth
educate.’s scholarship programme is at the core of what we do. This week, as we raise funds to continue our programme for the coming year, we want to share a story with you from one of our students: Shelsy Yolibeth. Shelsy is 17 years old and is from the community of Ilama, Santa Bárbara. Before … Continue reading Stories of Change from our Scholarship Programme: Shelsy Yolibeth
The Youth Center opens and the first year of educate.’s high school scholarship programme comes to an end!
Our High School scholarship programme educate. works to empower children and youth in Honduras through community-driven educational initiatives. In 2017 we started our university scholarship programme, which has been running since then. However, through conversations with families, local educators and young people, a clear need emerged for greater support towards access to high school as … Continue reading The Youth Center opens and the first year of educate.’s high school scholarship programme comes to an end!
Bringing STEM education into educate. libraries: an internet pilot at Las Lagunas primary school
In many classrooms world-wide, the internet has become an indispensable tool in education – a tool that connects students with a variety of sources and opportunities to learn. Through the Internet Pilot Project, we and our partners at Hebbian have made access to this resource possible for the children of rural Las Lagunas primary school … Continue reading Bringing STEM education into educate. libraries: an internet pilot at Las Lagunas primary school
In Las Delicias, dedicated teachers have made all the difference
Written by Antonia McGrath, educate. Director and Co-Founder The Las Delicias school is located on the outskirts of Trinidad. Situated under the lofty branches of the surrounding trees, the school has three spacious classrooms as well as their new library. What makes the project stand out however, is Profe Gueyby. Profe Gueyby is an astonishingly dedicated … Continue reading In Las Delicias, dedicated teachers have made all the difference
La Alegria’s Library in the Mountains
Written by Antonia McGrath, educate. Director and Co-Founder During a recent trip to Honduras, the first of the educate. libraries I visited was in the La Alegria community. La Alegria is a 45 minute mototaxi ride from the town of Trinidad: down into the valley, up the main road, and then off a dirt track … Continue reading La Alegria’s Library in the Mountains
The dark side of voluntourism: why development work needs to prioritize local leadership
Even if you haven’t yet heard the term ‘voluntourism,’ you almost certainly are familiar with the phenomenon it refers to. Its imagery and advertising are everywhere – resume-building, perspective-changing opportunities to build a well/teach English/help at an orphanage somewhere in the global South, for a price. Such a combination of volunteering and tourism appeals to … Continue reading The dark side of voluntourism: why development work needs to prioritize local leadership
“Viva la Biblioteca” at Escuela Guadalupe Ulloa
Versión en Español mas abajo On a sunny Thursday morning in Honduras, a truck laden with the books and desks rumbled its way up through the Honduran coffee-farming countryside to the rural town of Trinidad. Far too big for the town’s narrow streets, the truck barely made it to the school’s entrance, where the carpenters … Continue reading “Viva la Biblioteca” at Escuela Guadalupe Ulloa
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