Beginning Phase 3

On Monday, 10/28, the 2016’s had a Skype session with Karen Godt, one of the founders of Hope for Honduran Children. Her daughter, who is an Elon University graduate, also helped found this organization. Hope for Honduran Children is a small, grassroots organization that’s mission is to reduce poverty through social development and education. The organization supports 55 teenagers living onsite at Flor Azul Boys Community, 150 students in rural villages, and 30 students who have turned 18 and are entering technical training schools. Hope for Honduran Children would be thrilled to partner with out Periclean Scholars Class of 2016. They need new energy and all the help they can get. The 2016’s offered to sell bracelets made by Honduran women, with all profits benefitting Hope for Honduran Children’s projects. Several 2016’s are interested in participating in a trip to Honduras this March to get a better idea of what Hope for Honduran Children does on site. Our Periclean class is considering using our contacts at Honduran universities to plan a trip to Honduras in which we could organize a group project. This organization has definite potential for a partnership. Our Periclean class also recognizes that we are not limited to one partner.
On Wednesday 10/30, we recapped our conversation with Karen Godt and once again broke into small groups for discussion. We are beginning to more seriously consider potential partners for our work in Honduras. The next important step for us to take is to establish who to select, collectively as a class, as a partner and our area of focus. In small groups we discussed the various final projects of class members and how cooperatively people are working together toward common projects, like securing both local and foreign partners, creating a more effective online presence and working on different fundraisers and events to positively represent Periclean and our class as a whole. Still in small groups we discussed who we felt might be some of our best options for the potential Honduran partners that we have discussed thus far. With a decade of previous classes as a model who tackled the serious question of whether we want to focus on a specific issue and then find a partner based off of that or first find a partner and then address an area of need. Both methods are models used by different Periclean classes that have come before us. We addressed vital questions to select which will bring us closer to a definitive project by the end of the semester and will be deciding soon. We decided by the end of the day to due a bit more research on other potential partners but that Cargill, Vos Que Haras Por Honduras and Hope for Honduran Children are all organizations that have strong support from class members and we now just need to contact them and commit to see if they are willing to partner. We are excited about these opportunities for partnership and for everyone to commit to the same project or partnership.

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