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The charity comunión-H was founded in 1998 in Honduras for the benefit of orphaned children. The IRCA project (Residential Institution of Alternative Care for Children and Adolescents (NNA)-Casa Hogar was launched by the Honduran nun, Sor Leonarda Martinez.
Sor Leonarda y Wilson
One of the first objectives of the IRCA project has been to welcome abandoned children, ostracised for being HIV positive. The IRCA home has welcomed up to 100 children, ranging from a few months old babies to teenagers.
The remote area of Limon, in Honduras faces several economic and social issues, which the IRCA project is trying to tackle: from the massive migration of parents to the United States, to drug trafficking, homicides, alcoholism, family violence, human trafficking, diseases (HIV), unemployment, and high school dropout rates (worsened by the recent Covid-19 pandemic).
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