Honduras Poverty Facts
- Nearly 65 percent of its population lives in poverty, with 48.3 percent living below the poverty line.
- Poverty rates are higher among rural and indigenous people as well as in the south, west and along the eastern border than in the north and central areas where most of Honduras’s industries and infrastructure are concentrated.
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented impact of two successive hurricanes significantly impacted Honduras’s economy in 2020, and its impacts continue. Expectations are for the country’s gross domestic product to contract by 9 percent and the poverty line to rise to 55.4 percent
- Life expectancy is 70.7 years for men and 73.2 years for women. according to the latest WHO data published in 2020
- The GDP per capita is $2,831
Help for Honduras
Food For The Poor (FFTP) began serving in Honduras in 1999, after the Central American country was slammed by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The charity works with its partner CEPUDO, which is based in San Pedro Sula, and the Order of Malta. There are 99 projects under way, including water treatment and water purification, education, animal husbandry, sustainable community developments, agriculture, micro-enterprise, medical, sanitation, housing, and support for orphaned and abandoned children. FFTP also serves Honduras through donations of goods.
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Our Impact in Honduras
2022
Completed the UNIOYOL Cooperative Bean Project serving 10 farmers and their families and the COPPROME Children’s Home Greenhouse Project and the Centro de Vida Infantil Greenhouse project that will serve a total of 61 youth living in children’s homes.
2022
Completed the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Center, the first ever in Honduras serving children with cancer; Guanaja Hospital; and completed the Hospital Mario Catarino Emergency Wing.
2022
FFTP in partnership with Water Mission built three Living Water Treatment Systems for drinking water benefiting over 8,000 people and completed two water projects that provides running water to families for bathing, washing, and cleaning to over 10,000 people.
2021
In 2021, FFTP shipped 346 tractor-trailer loads of essential items to Honduras, including 40 tractor-trailer loads of items specifically for COVID-19 relief, and 51 tractor-trailer loads of hurricane supplies in response to back-to-back hurricanes.
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