It’s hard to believe that this is one Central America’s poorest countries. In the past 10 years they’ve experienced great devastation due in part to hurricanes and natural disasters that have left them with a loss in coffee and banana production, two of their chief exports. Unemployment is high, and many children have been relegated to the streets to fend for themselves as parents have found themselves too poor to keep them. Some parents have sought work in neighboring countries, leaving children behind with friends, relatives and some, even on their own.

When a partner ministry in El Salvador, asked us to assist them in providing a home for young, unwed mothers, Orphan’s Promise was ready to step in and help provide this need. Girls as young as ten have become pregnant because they live on the streets and are at the mercy of gang members who dominate the weaker children. They needed a safe haven for themselves and their babies.

Promise House is home for young girls with babies who have nowhere to turn. One of them is only 11 years old with a ten-month-old baby! These are babies having babies through no fault of their own. Orphan’s Promise has created a real home for these young girls. They are safe and they’re receiving an education and training to allow them to build lives for themselves and their children.

Hope House is a transition house for girls who have been removed from serious at-risk situations and circumstances: Gangs, the streets, state orphanages etc. Hope House offers these vulnerable girls a safe and secure home with hope for an education and a future.

Major Issues

• Orphans (approx. 25,000)
• Poverty
• Infectious diseases