Short-Term Construction Information

Here are some basic details and costs for a team to do a construction project and stay at the Border Buddies Mission House in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:

• Teams can be scheduled from March through October.
• Trips usually 10-11 days.
• Group sizes 8 to 12 persons. (We can accommodate up to 16)
• Lodging in the up-to-date mission house of your missionary hosts, in the city of Tegucigalpa. Showers, all modern conveniences, internet, etc.
• Airplane tickets at the current price – typically ranging between $1000 and $1200 depending on where you are located. Border Buddies can book your flight for you.
• $65.00 per person for each day in Honduras covers Food and Lodging, which includes food from COSTCO, purified water, electricity (same outlets as in the U.S.), wi-fi and ground transportation. Optional trips for ice-cream or special outings will be elective and at your additional expense. All meals are prepared in the Mission House and consist primarily of U.S. products. We are extremely careful about food and water safety for your team.
• The team needs to raise $6,000.00 minimum for project materials for a construction team of 10 or less.   Groups larger than 10 should plan on $600 per person. If you can meet that figure, it greatly enhances the overall project by having enough materials to keep everyone busy. All tools supplied by Border Buddies. Bring your own gloves, tape measures, hammers, side-cutters, etc. that  you might want for the specifics or your project.
• Day trips to Valley of Angels and Picacho Mountain are easy to fit into the schedule; the gas and entry fees are included with the Food and Lodging fee.

If you are interested in being on a team click on the Team Members Manual.

• 2025 Team MEMBER Manual

If you think you’d like to lead a construction team click on the Team Leaders Manual: 

• 2025 Team LEADER Manual

Why we need teams

We are looking for short-term mission teams to come to the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras to help refurbish public school buildings. In the United States, tax money provides what the schools need. However in Honduras the taxes pay only for the salaries of the teachers. The families in the local neighborhoods have to provide money for all of the maintenance and repair of the buildings and all the school supplies such as books, chalk, markers, paper, encyclopedias, dictionaries, desks, and anything else the school needs. Most families of these public schools can hardly feed themselves let alone help with school needs. The classrooms are very overcrowded, there are holes in the roofs, peeling paint, no screens or glass in their windows, and poor restroom facilities. The children and the teachers lose hope, and most children drop out of school by the end of 6th grade. As a result, these children have a no skills and a very bleak future. In desperation they turn to the gangs as their only way to make a living. We believe with all our heart that this is not fair to the children, their families and the future of Honduras.

We have completed upgrades on five schools now, expanding some, adding rooms, including a computer lab in one, and in every school we establish a cafeteria capable of serving 300-400 children a hot meal each day, and we not have 4 cafeterias operating. In each school that we assist, attendance improves, grades improve, health improves, hope increases, teachers find purpose, and the children have hope for a successful future.

CONSTRUCTION TEAM HISTORY

• In 2005 we began work on our very first school, Escuela de Venezuela, in Barrio Rincon. New roofing, paint, screens in the windows, roofed-over and walled in soccer/play area, plus an additional two story building with a fully modern cafeteria on the first floor and air-conditioned computer lab, offices and library on the second floor. With the success of that venture we now have seven other schools who have asked for help.
• We have not stopped since then and every year, even during Covid, we have worked on and upgraded:
  • Escuela Fuerzas Armadas (was Junior only, now is Junior/Senior)
  • Escuela Roberto Sosa (Junior)
  • Escuela Santa Margarita (Junior)
  • Instituto 21 de Octubre (large Junior/Senior 1100 students)
  • Escuela San Miguel Heredia (Junior)
  • Escuela Arturo Quesada (Junior) still under construction but nearly complete as of 2025.

Despite the major interruption from Covid we never stopped working on the schools.

MEDICAL TEAMS SUSPENDED as of COVID ERA

Over the years we hosted 8 medical teams. Many thousands of people were seen, diagnosed and treated completely free by volunteer U.S. doctors and nurses that gave of their time and expertise. We are forever grateful to those dedicated men and women.

HOWEVER, rues and regulations have increased exponentially in Honduras, and have gotten very complicated to the point that we can no longer process the documentation needed, nor do we want to expose anyone to any sort of liability.

We believe that God will open the door someday in the future. When that happens we will actively recruit teams to once again come and treat “the least of theses”.