2024-04-29T22:26:26-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 342009561 REFUGE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION REFU 3343130533 PO Box 271 Henderson TN 38340 Ronnie Carter Chairman 3343130533 2024-04-29 Ronnie Carter 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 X 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.refugeintfc.org X X 68840 68840 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68840 75056 0 0 0 0 0 0 75056 -6216 19713 0 13497 19713 13497 0 0 0 0 19713 13497 0 0 19713 13497 Support to Ministires in Honduras and in other locations that provide support and assistance to children and their families. Refuge International operates a resource center, Mission Point Resource Center, in Catacamas, Olancho, that provides educational and teaching material to parents and teachers. Our primary focus is Honduras where we fund a program BECA - which is a scholarship program which supports children to go to public schools with stipends which range from $20 to $100 per month. In 2022 we supported 19 young people. We continued three feeding programs for children, and added a fourth, which provide two meals per week to approximately 150 children. in Jutiquile, La Mansion, Villa Nueva, and Trujillo. We continued and increased distribution of food baskets to needy families. We distributed more than 350. In 2023 support continued to Mission Point Resource Center in Catacamas, Olancho. Providing training in Ethics, Teacher Training, Computer proficiency, and Church Leadership to families in approximately 63 congregation in Eastern Honduras. Approximately 4 teacher groups have been trained and 10 students received a 13-week computer literacy course. Also during 2022 we continued support to an outreach ministry in Autaugaville, Alabama, a community with many at risk children. In Honduras, we continued a BECA program, which provides stipends to 19 children allowing them to continue in public school. We also have feeding programs in four communities - Tegucigalpa, LaMansion, Trujillo and Jutiquile. Through these programs approximately 130 youngsters and a small number of older people are provided two meals per week. In response to the Covid quarantine, we redirected the Resource Center budget to providing food baskets for families in need. These redirected funds were supplemented by other giving with the result that thirty families were assisted multiple time with food baskets. In all more than 350 food baskets were distributed. Funds were also sent to Guatemala to help with food shortages in El Estor Isabel. Two ministers, Mario Alfaro, and Marlon Molina have been supported full time. These two men serve local churches but also travel throughout Olancho and Colon to deliver classes on Leadership training - a program called PROFORLE or Program for the Formation of Leaders. Repairs and upgrades in the amount of $7500 were made to the Resource Center facility which is rented from the Good Samaritan School, a sister ministry in Catacamas. We also took a group of people on a mission trip in June, and we hosted several seminars for the local congregations. We also distributed dozens of food baskets to needy families. 68840 75056 75056 Ronnie E Carter Chairman 15 0 Travis K Gable Director 10 0 Alan Manley Director 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AL Ronnie E Carter 750 White Avenue Henderson TN 38340 3343130533 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 62894 49360 67159 67877 68840 316130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62894 49360 67159 67877 68840 316130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 316130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62894 49360 67159 67877 68840 316130 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED