Typical in the Third World, women are un-educated and at the mercy of sexual predators within and without their immediate family.  Uneducated girls and women are dependent on men for their food, clothes and shelter.  These men demand sexual favors in return.

This sexual slavery continues in many ways through their adult life.  Their only rescue is through education and empowerment through understanding their identity in Christ.

Young men, brought up in the machismo culture, have no hope of escaping these generational curses themselves until they are taught the truth of God’s love. 

Hope and a Future

Price: $480.00

Students from the local area start out at the local junior high school, Lenca forestry institute of Yamaranguila.  This is a public school and is the first step for local children to study.

Basic Scholarship

Price: $1275.00

Many students are from villages far out of town.  Stories of walking four hours to school and back home again each day is common.  These students are housed in Yamaranguila or La Esperanza while studying, at an additional cost.
Text Box: Basic Scholarship including housing for out-of-town students

Price: $1175.00
Text Box: Students who have had a few years of public education, who show drive, excellence and a commitment to their families, community and to Christ earn the privilege to attend a private high school. The cost is higher, but the schools prepare students for a professional careers and possibly college.

Private School for Students of Outstanding Achievement

Price: $1450.00
Text Box: When an out-of-town student, attending the local high school, excels academically, he is qualified to attend a private school, all of which are found in La Esperanza. These private schools are similar to technical schools in the U.S., preparing the student for careers fresh out of high schools.

Out-of-town Students Attending Private School

Price: $400.00
Text Box: The Lenca Indian villages suffer from poor schools and absentee teachers. One goal is to educate students from each village to return to their home and become the teachers of their local school. These students attend junior high school in the mountain village of Monte Verde. When graduating, they can then attend school in La Esperanza.

Mountain Scholarships

Price: $3,500.00
Text Box: Every once is a while a student of such outstanding character and achievement comes along who truly deserves a college education. Unfortunately, the yearly cost makes this very rare. Currently, Hope and a future has five students in college with three more qualified students graduating high school in 2008.

College Students

Hope and Future provides scholarships for these economically impoverished girls and boys.  As the boys learn who they are in Christ, they transform into men of integrity, passion and power.  Together, these transformed young men and women, intellectually astute and spiritually alive, will form the future of Yamaranguila and the surrounding area