Father Daniel St. Laurent saw a need. An experience in Mexico – in a place they called “La Estacion” (the station), led him to seek ways to address the poverty in our world.
Fast forward to Honduras – he saw a malnourished mother unable to provide for her newborn baby, and wanted to find a way to change that injustice. He met some young men from the community – and like that carpenter of long ago – started something big by gathering a small group and getting to work. They were provided with a tract of land and buildings owned by the church, and those young men began to transform it from a deserted, dry, and barren field to a green and growing garden. While they planted, and prayed, and waited – Father Dan came back to the US to seek funds and partners.
Project Eden and Adelante is the result of years of building, planting, praying, and seeking. Our mission is two-pronged – nutrition and health, and education.
Project Eden, Inc. is a small non-profit organization that was started in 2002 to address the need for better nutrition and improved access to education in the rural region of San Francisco de la Paz.
After 19 years, gardens are producing crops, trees are bearing fruit, and students are attending school, including Universities.
But we can do more.
Most other large humanitarian and relief organizations don’t operate here. In the San Francisco de La Paz area, there are still malnourished children, parents who can’t read or write, and families that don’t know where the next meal will come from.
We invite you to join with us to help provide improved nutrition and greater access to education in this region of Honduras. You can help by sponsoring a student, giving a gift of support for the gardens, or by volunteering in Honduras for a week or two.
We have a strong, dedicated team of volunteers who are willing to answer your questions, and help plan and implement immersion trips. You could put together your own trip, with members of your community, or perhaps join a trip planned by another group.
For more detailed information, click on the “Immersion Trips” icon on the Home Page.
Board of Directors 2021/2022
Scott Fitzpatrick; President – Making his first trip to Honduras in 2007, Scott joined the Board in 2010. “I have made 11 trips to the San Francisco de la Paz area, and I am always amazed by the beauty of the country, the faith, hard work, and perseverance of the people, and their joy in family and friends.” Scott is a musician, and looks forward to playing guitar and singing with his Honduran friends.
Mary Fitzpatrick; Secretary – Mary made her first trip to San Francisco de la Paz in 2007, with nine other people from Immaculate Heart of Mary church in Concord, NH. “It was an amazing, sometimes painful, and, above all, spiritual journey that left me changed. Since that time I have traveled down 11 times with my husband and groups of people from New England. The people whom I have met have become dear friends.” Mary joined the Board in 2010.
Mark Stanko; Treasurer –
Michael Fitzpatrick – Michael joined the Board in 2019, and has made three trips to Honduras.
Frank Hagan – Frank Hagan is a retired forester from Bethlehem, NH. He has been a Project Eden board member since 2019. Frank has made eight trips to Honduras working on a variety of projects, including construction, gardens and medical brigades.
Evelyn Hagan – Evelyn Hagan, a nurse practitioner from Bethlehem, NH, has been a Project Eden board member since 2019. She has participated in ten medical brigades to Honduras, nine of them in the San Francisco de la Paz region.
Brian Donahue –
Joe Morris – Joe is a resident of the Akron, Ohio area and became involved in Honduras mission work in 2016 with St Basil the Great in Brecksville, OH. Joe has been to Honduras on two mission trips to focus on the building and maintenance of water filtration systems, installed and maintained by St. Basil. That water project work merged with Project Eden in 2020. Joe and his wife Leah have 4 children at 4, 2 (twins) and a newborn.
Mary Rohr-Tuininga –
Elaine Tolley Andrews –