Youth Magazine: Holiday Edition

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from OYE's youth magazine. Here is the cover of the December magazine, which includes traditional Honduran holiday recipes, a refection on holiday consumerism, and more.

Clip of the Week

Welcome to OYE's Clip of the week! We would like to share the sights and sounds of life in Progreso through the eyes of our volunteers, staff and students. Look forward to next weeks Clip of the week!

Here is more from OYE's youth magazine. The first few seconds show the calm before the storm as Yapa and Raúl, the Magazines youth coordinators, receive, count and begin to organize 1000 magazines.

Afterwards Yapa and Raúl distribute magazines to each of the youth in the magazine. If you can catch a glimpse the excitement makes it hard to maintain a line. Students jump at the chance to share the magazine with their friends and families.

What a good looking group!

Here are the writers of 'Jóvenes Revista' (Youth Magazine). What a good lookin' Group.




These 20 youth have published 7 magazines and reached out to thousands of youth in their communties.

Clip of the Week

Welcome to OYE's Clip of the week,! We would like to share the sights and sounds of life in Progreso through the eyes of our volunteers, staff and students.

Last week we got serious with planning OYE, writing projects and budgets for 2010. So we took a break during lunch and let off some steam....

I still can't believe I am posting this Clip of the week but I promised Luis I would. So, will I bring you the championship match from 2009 between Luis Paredes and Katherine Burdine...




And the redo after a debate over fair play...however...He is exceptionally strong and he does it all with a smile.




"Stay in school kids."
- The Champ, Luis Paredes

Evaluations, Team building and 2010 planning

This week we closed down the OYE office in order to reinforce, re-examine and plan ahead. We invited local professionals who have worked within the Progresan community for many years within social services, education and youth outreach. With their guidance along with our director, Luis Paredes, the OYE staff examines all the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to our projects. It was uplifting to see the progress we made in 2009 and look ahead to the potential of 2010! Big things coming up in OYE!!!



OYE Team plus Juan Luis aka El Padrino (the Godfather)




We even took come time to celebrate Leo's 20th birthday!