Daily Activities

Monday to Friday

6:00 am Kitchen begins preparing daily meal.

7:00 am Now we are serving Breakfast to about seventy five children and hope to increase that number to include all Hope's children.

8:00 am Staff reports to work (the ones not involved in the Kitchen) and prepare for the day’s activities.

8:15 am Small group of AM children arrive for school tutoring and reinforcement and to do homework, library, internet research etc.

10:00 am Snack for children receiving school assistance.

11:00 am 1st group of approximately 50 children arrives before they go to school.

11 - 11:25 am 1st group receives Bible and values instruction and prayer.

11:30-11:55 am 1st group is served a nutritious lunch, dishes are washed and dried, clean up the tables and prep for PM groups.

12:00 - 1:00 Staff lunch, prep for PM activities.

1:00 pm 2nd group of approx 85 children arrives after having gone to school (these are the kids coming out from school in the morning).

1:00 - 1:25 pm 2nd group receives Bible and values instruction and prayer.

1:30-1:55 pm 2nd group is served a nutritious lunch, dishes are washed and dried and prep for 2pm group.

2:00 pm 3rd group of approx 50 teenagers arrives that are coming back from morning school.

2:00 pm A group of PM children begin doing HW and getting school assistance.

2:00 - 2:25 pm Teenagers receive Bible and values education and prayer.

2:30-2:55 pm Teenagers are served a nutritious lunch, cleanup and prep for next day begins.

3:00 - 4:00 pm Youth and PM group continue receiving school and HW help.

Weekly Activities

Tuesday:

Every Tuesday is market day. Thousands of pounds and fruits and vegetables are collected from the Central Market CENMA during the day. In the afternoon, the fruits and vegetables are separated and what is needed for the week is taken to the kitchen. The remaining food is distributed weekly to each of our families at no cost.

During soccer season 2 to 3 practices are held during the week depending on the number of teams we have registered. Likewise games are 2 to 3 a week on Friday afternoons and Saturday. Soccer is coached by our friend, Fausto Arevalo.

Fridays :

Fridays are our Fun days! This is the day that we take to just hang out with the kids at our facilities and play outdoor games or play in our annex building with inside games. Also we often just sit down, talk and hang out with our young people.

Monthly Activities

Once a month we receive a donation from Casa de Dios, a local church, which has to be picked up and inventoried.

As time, money, and opportunity allows, children are taken on extracurricular excursions to the National Ballet, National Symphony, movies, park, bowling, and zoo and others as possible.

Future Projects

With the help of a third generation carpenter Fausto Arevalo we hope to launch or Carpenter shop to teach the youth a trade and to sale what they make so they can have an income and we can keep them in School out of the street and Ganges. (Coming very soon).

We also hope to get our Beauty Salon and Aesthetic workshop off the ground.