WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT US
- Empowering Future Leaders Through Workforce Education: The International Samaritan Approach (May 2025)
- Detroit’s Dan Weingartz Receives Dealmaker of the Year Award (April 2025)
- Announcing the Detroit Smart Business Dealmaker Award Winners and 2025 Dealmakers Hall of Fame Class (April 2025)
- Honors Students Continue 10-Year Partnership with International Samaritan (March 2025)
- Detroit Catholic High School Students Spend Their Winter Break Learning and Serving with International Samaritan (February 2025)
- High School Boys and a Priest from Toledo Founded International Samaritan, a Nonprofit that is Thriving 30 Years Later (August 2024)
- Kiteezi Samaritan provides relief aid to landslide victims (August 2024)
International Samaritan’s Relief Efforts to Help Uganda’s Kiteezi Dumpsite Landslide Disaster Victims (August 2024) - International Samaritan Opens Family Life Center in Honduras (June 2024)
- New International Samaritan partnership takes Trinity Health doctors and residents to Ethiopia (February 2024)
- News Wire: New International Samaritan partnership takes Trinity Health doctors and residents to Ethiopia (February 2024)
- Weingartz Foundation Gives $2.2M to Aid International Samaritan’s African Mission (May 2023)
- With Local Nonprofit’s Help, Honduran Community Will Have Clean Drinking Water (March 2023)
- Former University of Michigan Athletic Director Gives $100,000 Gift for Honduran Water System (February 2023)
University of Toledo students help fight extreme poverty by fasting Friday (February 2020)
- St. John’s Students Reflect on Volunteering in Guatemala (October 2019)
- LIVE at Saint Mary Student Parish (April 2019)
- Interview on Ave Maria Radio (April 2019)
- $2 Day at The Nest (April 2019)
- International Samaritan hires Tenbusch as new president (November 2018)
- International Samaritan Announces “Be a Samaritan Day” (July 2018)
- Ann Arbor’s International Samaritan organization declares July 31 “Be a Samaritan Day” (July 2018)
- Marian students provide aid in Guatemala and Nicaragua (March 2015)
- Karen Pulte honored for contribution to International Samaritan (October 2014)
- International Samaritan granted consultative status by U.N. (September 2011)
Making a Splash
Here in Honduras, most families dedicate some time to go to the beach and enjoy the beautiful ocean. But for us in landlocked Tegucigalpa, it takes between five and eight hours to reach a Caribbean coastal town! And for our scholarship students and their families, who live next to the municipal garbage dump, making that journey is nearly impossible.
So at our Buen Samaritano Family Life Center, we brought some of the ocean experience to our Samaritan Scholars.
Our scholarship recipients and other children from the community have been enjoying swimming in the pools here at the family life center. They’re super happy, and we’re even happier to see them smile.
Since they live hours away from the ocean, we brought a beach day to our Samaritan Scholars in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In Tegucigalpa, water is one of the most common problems we face as residents of the capital, since we don’t have enough. In this community, one of the projects we value most, and which we have thanks to International Samaritan, is the water system which brings clean, fresh water to 2,000 people.
Water is so important to us that we’ll be sure it isn’t wasted! Once the kids get tired of swimming, the water will be used in the restrooms for the toilets. But first, we get to see them happily enjoy time in the pools.
In 2023, with the help of generous donors, a 20,000-gallon water tower was built that brought clean water to 400 homes and more than 2,000 people. You can read more about the water system on our blog: intsam.org/a-day-
International Samaritan is a Christ-centered organization built on Catholic Social Teaching. Our mission is to walk hand-in-hand with people who live and work in the garbage dumps of developing nations to help them break out of poverty.
We provide holistic scholarships for students from kindergarten through college, and we’re currently supporting nearly 1,000 scholars in Central America, the Caribbean, and East Africa.
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Ronia Romero, Honduras Program Director
Ronia serves as International Samaritan’s Program Director in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She has a degree in Foreign Languages from the Universidad Autonoma of Honduras. For many years, she has dedicated herself to expanding opportunities for children, adolescents, and adults who work in the Tegucigalpa municipal dump.
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