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Dear Volunteer,
Most of our volunteer opportunities are in conjunction
with "bed building" trips to Honduras, Costa Rica
and less frequently, to Peru. The purpose of
these trips is to provide children living in severe
poverty with bunk beds and high quality mattresses.
These children generally sleep on dirt floors making
them prone to parasites and other health issues. The
wooden bunk beds are made in-country and are pre-drilled
for assembly by the volunteers who deliver and assemble
the beds with the children and families in their tiny
dwellings.
We are just beginning to plan a trip to the island of
Roatan, Honduras tentatively scheduled for February
2009. Once plans have been finalized we will have the
information added to the SOFTLY website. Please
check our website periodically for future volunteer
trips.
SOFTLY is a small, grass roots organization and can
always use volunteers for support in administrative
areas such as web maintenance, fund raising, and writing
grants, newsletters, correspondence or any other tasks
that would support the organization. So, of course if
you have an interest in volunteering in these areas
please let us know, we would welcome your help.
Thank you for your interest in SOFTLY International.
Regards,
Bonnie Garin Email
Training SOFTLY Leaders for a
Better Tomorrow
Volunteers
from all around the world, from all walks of life are
choosing to make a difference in the life of a child,
and in return, these volunteers are experiencing changes
in their own lives!
Whether you are 8 or 80, SOFTLY volunteers are One By
One lifting a child up and off the ground!
Bed Construction: A More Efficient Process
These wooden bed frames have been constructed in a
carpentry
technical school in Costa Rica operated by the
Salvation Army and another school in Honduras
operated by Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos. These
beds have now been delivered to the families living in
each country. They were assembled in their homes and set
up with a top quality mattress.
Donations from people and organizations like you provide
these beds that bring multiple benefits to the countries
and their poorest families:
- The materials are purchased on the local economy
The beds provide training projects for the carpentry
schools
The little children receive their new beds.The delivery teams include churches, schools, community
organizations, families and individuals who travel to
these countries from the United States. They also
include students from (ICADS) the Institute for Central
American Development Studies.
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