STUDENTS HELPING HONDURAS INC
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Mission Statement
A movement to end extreme poverty & violence in Honduras through education & youth empowerment
About This Cause
Our Story began in the dorm room of a 21-year old college student... In 2004, Shin Fujiyama went on a weeklong service trip to Honduras. He was a 20-year old college student who had no idea that those few days would shape the next ten years of his life. He never imagined that he'd be running an orphanage and school, build a village, and be named a CNN Hero a few years later. After that initial trip, Shin began returning to Honduras during all of his breaks to find out more about the country, its challenges, and its people. Back on campus, he began raising money for various charities and orphanages in Honduras. His first penny drive barely brought in twenty dollars. He almost quit that day, but his friends encouraged him to keep trying. So he began organizing bake sales, car washes, and yard sales with his roommates. Soon, they began to raise more money. Other students began to accompany Shin on his trips to Honduras. Since then, nearly 100 universities and high schools in the U.S. have started a chapter of Students Helping Honduras. Thousands of volunteers have traveled to Honduras and collectively raised millions of dollars. After graduating from college in 2007, Shin and his sister Cosmo decided to start Students Helping Honduras, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. SHH is on track to establish 1,000 chapters across the nation by the year 2020. In 2009, Shin was named a CNN Hero and was featured on CNN, CNN en Español, Larry King Live, and national news stations in Honduras for his work in the country. Shin currently lives in Honduras, working as the Executive Director and coaching for the village soccer team at Villa Soleada. SHH is working to build 1000 schools in villages across Honduras. In addition to school construction, SHH also runs a bilingual elementary school, 2 homes for orphaned and abandoned boys and girls, a college scholarship program and a village project called Villa Soleada. Villa consists of 44 homes with various community projects within. Through youth empowerment and education we believe we can reduce both poverty and violence in the most dangerous country in the world.