Honduras, according to the World Health Organization, is one of three countries in the Western Hemisphere suffering from a critical shortage medical care; the other two countries are Nicaragua and Haiti. Sociedad Amigos de Los Niños (SAN), founded over 40 years ago by Sister Maria Rosa Leggol of the School Sisters of St. Francis, is a Honduran-run, non-for-profit organization providing care for poor and neglected children of Honduras. SAN also works to deliever healthcare to the rural countryside south of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, while concurrently sustaining a network of orphanages. To financially support their projects, SAN relies upon micro-enterprises and financial support from international NGO’s.
Sociedad’s newest project has converted the small clinic, Santa Rosa de Lima Clinic, which is staffed by two Cuban doctors into a hospital complete with surgery center and maternity ward. SAN also operates the Pedro Atala Homes in Tegucigalpa, Reyes Irene Valenzuela Training Center, Nuevo Paraiso Village, Montaña de Luz Aids Hospice, and Flor Azul Boys Farm. In all, the forty-year old Sociedad Amigos de Los Niños, which was started by Sister Maria Rosa Leggol of the School Sisters of St. Francis, cares for nearly 300 impovershed Honduran Children.
Please visit the the official Sociedad Amigos de Los Niños website for more information:
www.saninos.org.hn
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