Out of curiousity (and no disrespect intended towards you or a generous heartfelt gift), what special talents or skills do you have that would be of benefit to the children of Honduras?
The money spent on airfare would likely pay school fees for them for a long time. If this orphanage accepts volunteers on a regular basis, then the children are repeatedly being asked to make new friends, to trust strangers wandering through their home, and then to have these new people disappear from their lives. It encourages attachment disorders and exposes children to higher risk of abuse and exploitation. Not from you but due to the lack of boundaries they are being taught.
Sorry, I know I'm sounding very negative and I don't want to trample on your joyful gift.
It's actually a good point, and made with the best of intentions.
It is something that I think about often.
I won't go into details, but my business gives part of our income to charities around the World through a charitable 'network'. All very Kosher, public accounts and all that. Great organisation.
Every year, contributing 'members' have the opportunity to go on a study tour to visit some of the charities supported. Members pay there own way of course.
I have done one of these tours. To Cambodia. We spent a week visiting 10-12 charities that we support.
We helped build a school playground and all sorts of things.
Was it worth it? Yes. 100%
For the 12 of us on the trip it was rewarding, highly emotional, heart breaking (aids hospice visit) and every other emotion you can think of.
We learnt so much about the plight of the people we visited that it encouraged us to do more to help.
Children on the trip (there were 3) learnt invaluable lessons.
A 9 year old made this statement in our minibus.
"these people have nothing........and yet are happy".
"We have everything.......and constantly complain about not having the latest mobile phone"
Would I go again?
Probably not. Having done it, I no longer need the increased motivation created by the 'contact'.
I prefer to just give more
Done the right way, with the right motivation, these kinds of trips can be of enormous value to all parties involved.
A guy at work here goes overseas with his Church every year to build houses in poor remote communities.
When a gift is given, both parties gain.............
But thank you 
