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Please Pray
The greatest gift you can give the children at AFE is the gift of prayer.
• Please pray for the families and children living in the Tegucigalpa dump, that they will receive the love and Christ.
• Pray also for all the children, that they will receive a quality education and break the cycle of poverty and abuse.
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Your commitment to travel with Orphan Outreach allows the children we serve to know they are not forgotten. In ministering to these children you become the hands and feet of Christ and profoundly impact their lives as well as your own.

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More Information
  • 250 children and 1,000 adults rummage through the trash dump of Tegucigalpa every day, searching for something to sell or eat.
  • Sergie, 12, is one of those children: “I wish I had another choice.”
  • Dump trucks sometime crush the children and landslides of trash suffocate others to death.
  • The people work for 10 hours a day to collect bottles, and then cash them in for $2.
  • Child prostitution and drug abuse is rampant.
  • Abortions are routinely performed and dismembered bodies are found among the refuse.
  • 20,000 children live on the streets throughout Honduras.
  • 42 new children become homeless every month.
Step by Step, In High Heels

By Bob Beams

There she was, 15 years old and about to graduate! She couldn’t believe it. Her family had worked in the garbage dump for all her life. She had no hopes of ever going to school until one day she was invited to attend the AFE (Amor, Fe y Esperanza) School.

The years had flown and now here she was. She had been provided with a beautiful dress and high heels to wear. The high heels were the greatest challenge. She and the other girls had been practicing for 2 hours a day for 2 weeks. To her, walking in the heels was becoming a woman, being somebody, a symbol of one day leaving the garbage dump.

The women teachers and friends all met 2 hours early to help her with her hair and makeup. The room was decorated beautifully. A violin was being played for background music. Her name was called on the microphone, her escort took her hand and she walked, or floated, across the room. She walked across the room with admiring glances from the students who hoped one day to graduate. But most of all, she looked with moist eyes at her mom and dad as they beamed with pride. This was the first time she had seen her mom and dad together in a long time and she knew there was hope.

She walked, she walked into the future, with hope in her soul and God in her heart.
Yes, success, step by step, in high heels.




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