From Our Little Roses
March 17, 2022
Impact of Gender Inequality on Honduran Girls
Poverty and gender inequality are, unfortunately, a way to live for many women in Latin America. The impact of the pandemic has only exacerbated existing poverty levels.
An analysis published by the Economic Commission for Latin ...
March 15, 2022
March is National Women’s History month, making it the perfect time to reflect on your own efforts to champion females. In a world where girls and women are often marginalized in first-world countries, we know that the life of a girl in an underdeveloped country is oftentimes much ...
March 13, 2022
Mark Twain said that people could be categorized into 3 groups: commonplace, remarkable and lunatics. I do not know about you, but I can think of a few people that indeed belong in all of those 3 groups.
Saint Paul on the other hand says that there are only two kinds of ...
March 5, 2022
The first Sunday of Lent brings us back to the wilderness. Each year we are reminded of Jesus' place of testing, of privation and temptation. We are told that for 40 days our Lord was tempted by the devil but he resisted all the challenges for forty days. I wonder if we have been ...
March 2, 2022
Bishop Leo Frade was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 10, 1943. He grew up in a staunchly Methodist home. As a teenager at a youth conference, he felt a strong call to serve God and was for a time a lay missionary in the Sierra Maestra Mountains where Castro’s revolution began.
In ...
March 2, 2022
We have a special invitation from Bp. Leo Frade this Lent
As we begin the season of Lent, Our Little Roses invites you to a special Lenten Retreat with the Chair of our Board of Directors, Bishop Leo Frade. We begin today, Ash Wednesday with a special video message from Bp. Frade ...
February 24, 2022
As always, the season of Lent offers us an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices that Jesus made for us all. One of the most beautiful lessons Lent teaches us about giving, and sacrifice is that it possesses a transformative quality.
This is why almsgiving, along with prayer ...
January 31, 2022
In order for any country to have a strong economy, it must have access to an educated workforce. In many developing countries the accessibility of female education is low, meaning that a large portion of the population is not able to contribute to economic growth. In many parts of ...
January 26, 2022
The Our Little Roses organization has always been oriented around the education of young girls. With education as the main priority, young girls in Honduras are offered the opportunity to learn with Our Little Roses. In the beginning, many girls who came to the Our Little Roses ...
