Flor Azul
Flor Azul WebsiteFlor Azul began in 2004 as a farming community for neglected or abandoned teenage boys. The greater population (64%) of Honduras lives in conditions of extreme poverty. Children are often malnourished and required to work for their subsistence. The situation is even more critical in rural areas where young people drop out of school to work in the fields. The youth migrate to cities in search of a better future after inconsistent floods and droughts plague the harvests. Here, unemployment, hunger, disease, drugs, and gangs await them. In three short months the boys of Flor Azul cleared the fields with machetes, planted corn and fruit trees, built a modest home and a one room school house. These are loving hard-working boys with a dream and the ambition to achieve it. The Flor Azul project is currently mentoring 130 boys and providing each with elementary and high school educations and agricultural training.
Global Brigades helps fund the Flor Azul project by providing food for the boys and salaries for instructors, in addition to coordinating recreational activities between the Flor Azul boys and brigade volunteers.
Global Brigades sponsors the funding of many other projects outside of Brigades. Some projects are sponsored just through logistics and funding, other projects are much like typical brigades with volunteer opportunities, however often times have a competitive application process and for longer durations.