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

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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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Housing

In 2022, FFTP donors built 422 homes for a total of 10,952 homes since inception.

Water

FFTP successfully completed 60 water wells and initiated 12 that were still under construction in 2022. These wells benefit more than 10,800 people.

Food

Nourishing food helps children grow up healthy and strong and lets them focus on the future. In 2022, FFTP sent 51 containers of MannaPack.

Education

In 2022, FFTP built, repaired, or expanded 12 schools. Since 2009, FFTP has built, repaired, or expanded 182 schools in Honduras.

Medicine

FFTP completed the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Center, the first ever in Honduras serving children with cancer.

Emergency aid

In 2022, FFTP shipped 294 containers of essential goods, and nonperishable food to Honduras including clothing, medical and assorted canned food.

Children

In 2022, FFTP donors helped with the care of 2,549 children in 34 children’s homes in the Angels Of Hope program.

Sustainability

The Choloma Community Development includes a bakery, a sewing center, a plantain farm, a plantain chip factory, community center, youth outreach center, and a welding shop.

Community Support

250 students, a third of which are women, have graduated from a truck driving school; 136 drivers received donor scholarships.

Micro-Finance

The women of the El Cacao Productive Group are using their storied weaving skills to break the cycle of poverty for their families.

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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.