In 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, killing 5,600 people, causing $2 billion in damages, and destroying 3,000 schools nationwide. It was then that the Catholic Dioceses of Fort Worth and Juticalpa, Honduras, formed a “covenant partnership” focused on rebuilding and humanitarian assistance.
In 2008, Good Shepherd Catholic Community established a covenant partnership with the Fray Casimiro Cypher Trade School in Campamento, Honduras. With the leadership of the new director Mr Wilson Romero and our support, the “trade school”, has developed and it is now known as the Fray Casimiro Cypher Technical and Professional Institute (the “Institute”), where students continue learning skills that will help them earn money to support themselves and their families and now they also have the opportunity to learn English in the Bilingual school, they receive a higher academic and technical education and business skills. Our covenant vision enables Good Shepherd and “the Institute” to work together to help the poor of the community and promote social justice.
- In addition to the Trade School where middle and high school-aged students study academics and learn carpentry, welding, sewing and others skills, there is now a grade school for primary grades and a bilingual school.
- What once started as a school teaching trades to 250 students a year has grown into robust academic program that now educates 1,200 students a year and employs a staff of 60.
- Students live far from school, some of them walk or bike many miles to attend the schools. Now the Institute provides transportation and housing for some of them, but a great need for more student housing still exists.
- The school year runs from February through November, allowing students to work the harvest season of December and January and earn money for their families.
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Contact Tere Martin, Good Shepherd’s Mission Ministry Coordinator
at 817-421-1387, to learn more.
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