Students and staff at Sedge Garden Elementary School have been helping a new school in Honduras get off to a successful start. They have collected books and school supplies to help the teacher in the classroom, and they have established a pen-pal relationship with the students at Gift Community School in Nueva Palmira, a remote village in the mountains of Honduras.
The school was started, with the help of American missionary friends, by a Honduran man named Ricardo Venegas.
On a trip to the United States in January, Venegas, his wife and their two daughters visited Sedge Garden Elementary. Venegas said that he enjoyed seeing what a typical elementary school in America was like and was amazed by the abundance of materials and technology students had in each classroom. They also offered their deep appreciation for the help the Sedge Garden students and staff are sending to Nueva Palmira.
Venegas first visited Nueva Palmira in 2009. With the help of Mercy and Grace Ministries, Venegas brought food and clothing and started such projects as replacing thatched roofs with tin and setting up a medical clinic. In the summer of 2011, high school and college students from the Greensboro area built a simple concrete-block building that could be used for a school.
The school opened in February, 2012.
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