To know exactly why Honduras, a country with a privileged geographic position, beautiful landscapes, impressive cultural heritage, and enormous human diversity is having so many problems and is immersed in a humanitarian and economic crisis. It’s important to meet people who represent the 67.1% of the Honduran who are living in poverty.
Offering his product during a pandemic is “Don Luis”, and the elder man who did not want to give us his real name, he is almost seventy, has a disability, and uses a wheelchair to mobilize, “I don’t have social security or a pension”, told us when we were selling masks to walking people in Historic Downtown in Tegucigalpa.
Near him, a woman was selling clothes while her son was playing on the street and behind them, the stores, once formal sources of work were closed.
In February 2020, The World Bank (WB) presented research and revealed that the levels of Informal Jobs in Honduras are 58%, one of the highest in LatAm.
It is not unusual to watch children joining their parents during the labors, but not all the selling is doing in places, many vendors walk many miles and crossing neighborhoods. Sellers use wheelbarrows to carry fruits or vegetables and use megaphones to promote their products.
Honduras enterprises are not given answers to people, especially the youngers who started in October 2018 to form huge Caravans.
Informal jobs
Turning over the corner where don Luis is selling masks, another senior was selling homemade bread, and not so far from him, two women, with a little girl, were making flower arrangements and selling pineapples.
World Bank report revealed that just 38% of the workforce in Honduras is active, and from that, 47% are women.
Elder people (up to 60) in rural and urban zones are facing critical economic situations. According to INE the 63% of them do not have pensions and must work until they die.
Turning over the corner where don Luis is selling masks, another senior was selling homemade bread, and not so far from him, two women, with a little girl, were making flower arrangements and selling pineapples.
World Bank report revealed that just 38% of the workforce in Honduras is active, and from that, 47% are women.
Elder people (up to 60) in rural and urban zones are facing critical economic situations. According to INE the 63% of them do not have pensions and must work until they die.
Young people form caravans
Caravans are large groups of people crossing, by land, 4.000 km until U.S. frontier, heartbreaking images of families, leaving Honduras to get a better future, escaping from threatens extortion, inequity, corruption, violence, and effects of climate change in their lands.
The majority of immigrants are leaving their countries because of the crime, violence, and insecurity in Central America, told to BBC News Magazine Jonathan Hiskey from Vanderbilt University in the USA.
The Government of Honduras received from WB some advice, it must increase agriculture activity and generate better quality jobs to reduce poverty and indignity and protect children from early jobs.
FORBETTERCOMMUNITY started to give support to a community in Honduras, the project will include an agro-industrial cooperative and support the development of education and health.
Support Monoparental homes, extreme poverty families, stop immigration of young people, are the objectives of FORBETTER COMMUNITY for Santa Cruz, your help will help us to reach our goals.
Useful links:
- https://www.ine.gob.hn/V3/imag-doc/2020/01/Enero-2020-Cifras-Revisadas-Pobreza-en-Honduras-30-enero.pdf
- https://www.bancomundial.org/es/news/press-release/2020/02/17/diagnostico-del-trabajo-en-honduras
- https://rosanjose.iom.int/SITE/es/caravanas-migrantes
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