• 66% of Honduran households live in poverty
• Nearly 60% of workers are unemployed
• 33% of Hondurans don't have access to safe water
• 29% of Honduras 6 million people are illiterate
• Annual per capita income is $730
• Infant mortality is 41.8 deaths per 1,000 live births
• Malnutrition affects up to 40% of children under 5 years old
• Life expectancy is 68 years
• Up to 175,000 children each year fail to receive schooling of any kind

What can I do?

• For ideas on how to get involved in a project to help Honduras, e-mail: srt@specialmissions.org
• Online volunteer opportunities with Special Missions

Sources: UNICEF, World Bank and U.S. Department of State reports, Canadian Citizenship and Immigration; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board statistics.