July at ROHI was full of all the normal weekly and monthly activities including classes, two meals a day, teen-themed chats with the youth, school for parents, provisions for families in great need or illness, church services, boys’ haircuts provided by ROHI tech students, and July birthday celebrations. There were also six different entities that visited ROHI, many of which shared time and food with the students and some even with their families. Several of the groups also took food up to those working on the dump and donated clothing.
One extra-curricular, yet educational activity was the annual celebration of Lempira, a national Honduran hero. Students came dressed in traditional indigenous costumes sewn by their talented mothers.
Last month also brought some health emergencies within ROHI including dengue and stomach and respiratory illnesses in many of the students. ROHI staff is thankful to God and thankful for the donations that allow them to send sick students for consultations as well as buy their medicines, neither of which they would have if it weren’t for the donors who provide monthly support.
Prayer Requests from ROHI Staff for:
- the staff to be filled with the Holy Spirit’s presence and wisdom and with God’s love to be able to do their work with excellence
- the students to have new strength and motivation
- blessing and renewed minds for each parent
- God to meet every need of the children and for their parents to have work and physical and spiritual strength
- God to provide for every need at ROHI
- the director and her family—that God will cover them with the blood of Chris and any request that she and her family have in their hearts would be glorifying to God
- God to fill those who provide ROHI’s foreign oversight with blessings and that the work they do would prosper
- God to bless each of the ROHI teachers and their children
- each donor and their families—may God bless their requests
ROHI Project aims to provide comprehensive care to the children, youth, and their families who live and work in the Tegucigalpa, Honduras, municipal dump. The project name ROHI is inspired from one of the Hebrew names for God, Jehovah Rohi meaning “the Lord is my shepherd” as seen in Psalm 23.