San Pedro Sula Dream Center Inc

Food program relief, benevolence (care) and education programs: the organization throughout 2024 continued its food program, serving 280 individuals daily, 1,400 plates weekly, over 72,000 meals annually. The program merged with grocery distributions to widows and elderly, ensuring consistent care and provision for vulnerable families. The organization also continued adopt the block visits where they connected with the community by distributing groceries, offering prayer and personally visiting every family connected to the center. The benevolence program continued to monitor the welfare of children and families, addressing needs such as medical bills, home expenses, and transportation. Some of the highlights included assisting approximately 13 individuals with benevolent assistance throughout the year. The organizations education and sports programs served an average of 448 participants per quarter through music, sports, tutoring, english, chapel, youth leadership, and elderly gatherings. Students in the music program had the opportunity to participate in a huge citywide concert hosted at a major school in the city, an honor made possible through partnership with the uremu organization. The sports program, including soccer teams known as the dc lions, continued to participate in local tournaments, fostering a sense of community and personal growth through devotionals, practices, and events. Tutoring and homework help and school involvement were central to the efforts to keep children in school and to bring lasting change to the communities served by the organization. The volunteers regularly visited partner schools and conducted evangelistic outreaches at local schools and hope christian school. This year, the scholarship program continued to support 8 fully scholarshipped students and 2 partially scholarshipped students.

The name "dream center" continues to be an indispensable part of the vision of the organization; resolutely believing in giving hopeless people a reason to dream. The san pedro sula dream centers primary mission is to connect hopeless people to god and form a community of support by providing humanitarian services that address immediate and long term needs. Throughout 2024, the organization continued to lean into their primary purpose by offering and expanding on programs that speak to those needs such as their food programs, their education and sports programs, their benevolence & care programs and their outreaches to their community. Another major milestone was the construction of phase one of the new dream center facility. This first phase includes a full kitchen, a storage room for the feeding program, cafeteria seating with a multipurpose meeting room, two bathrooms, and a shower. Work began in february with a ground- breaking and prayer over the land, placing scripture-inscribed rocks in the foundation. In march the floor was poured, and through the spring and summer mission teams helped with building projects both inside and around the property. By the end of summer the roof was installed, walls were finished in september, and the local team prepared and cleaned the building. Additional infrastructure included securing permits, building a sewage system, connecting to city water, and constructing an underground reservoir to address limited water access. The new facility is set to open in early 2025. The organization also continued to administrate and oversee approximately 29 individuals that serve as their foreign staff and approximately 486 volunteers.