“Nutrition and Educational Outreach for the Hungry, Sick and Homeless.”
We believe the long-term solution to improving the health and lives of those we serve is through education. Honduras has an illiteracy rate of 12.9%. The highest rates are from the rural area, where the illiteracy rate is 20.2%.
PAHS serves the community by providing opportunities for adult literacy, accelerated secondary education, technical and vocational training, primary, and secondary education.
+ Primary Education
Adults and adolescents who have been unable to recieve a formal primary education can attend our Vocational School and achieve their educational goals while they work and study in a shortened schedule.
+ Secondary Education
PAHS has a long history of supporting secondary education in our community. We provide vocational training in the Dr. Stephen Youngberg Technical Vocational School. Additionally, PAHS has donated land assets that allowed the community to build the public high school which now serves over 700 students.
+ EDUCATODOS Program (Education For All Program)
People who were unable to attend school as children are given a second chance to acquire basic skills in order to further their education in a relaxed setting with a flexible schedule so they can keep a job and raise families and still advance their education.
The first group of students graduated in 2004 from EDUCATODOS - Eduacation for Everyone - a program pioneered by the United States Aid and International Development Agency (USAID), and certified by the Honduran Ministry of Edcuation.
+ Technical Vocational School Dr. Stephen Youngberg
With increased skills comes a better job, with better jobs comes a higher standard of living, with a higher standards of living comes an increased awareness of better ways to care for personal and family health issues.
In an effort to improve the lives of our community we offer an opportunity for vulnerable young people to receive an education in vocational training while advancing their secondary education.
The vocational school was completed in 1998 with funding from United States Aid and International Development - USAID, and is part of a network of schools affiliated with the Human Resource Consulting Center of Honduras - CADERH.
Offering the opportunity to learn sewing, auto mechanics, wood working and ornate wood carving the vocational school provides options for vulnerable young people.
