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United Way Honduras, with the valuable support of Cummins, successfully completed the Growing Together 2024–2025 project, an initiative designed to provide vocational training and entrepreneurship tools to mothers at the CIRE Special Pre-Basic and Basic Education Center.
The CIRE center serves children and adolescents with various disabilities—autism, dyslexia, visual, hearing, and intellectual impairments—and has a group of “waiting mothers” who spend long hours at the facility due to the distance from their homes or financial constraints. With them in mind, this project was born, representing a unique opportunity to break with routine, acquire new skills, strengthen their self-esteem, and resume personal and professional dreams that had been put on hold.
The impact has been significant: the program benefited 41 women, of whom 24 completed the training process and 14 received seed capital to start their own businesses.
The workshops included training in baking, event decoration, piñata making, digital marketing, personal finance, and life skills, totaling 16 sessions and 71 hours of practical training.
Kelin Aleyda Martínez, entrepreneur and program participant, shared: “When I heard that they were going to offer workshops for CIRE mothers, it caught my attention. I was starting a business, but without any knowledge, just out of the need to support my family. Thanks to Growing Together, I gained knowledge that has been enormously useful in my business and that no one can take away from me. We didn’t leave as we started: now we are ready to move forward for our families and communities.”
More than a learning process, Growing Together became a space for transformation: it strengthened the economic autonomy of the participants, restored their confidence, and consolidated them as active leaders in their families and communities.