2025-04-10T16:39:59-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 342009561 REFUGE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION REFU 3343130533 PO Box 271 Henderson TN 38340 Ronnie Carter Chairman 3343130533 2025-04-10 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.refugeintfc.org X X 95736 X 95736 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 95736 92921 0 0 0 0 0 0 92921 2815 13498 0 16313 13498 16313 0 0 0 0 13498 16313 0 0 13498 16313 Support to Ministries in Honduras and Guatemala that provide support and assistance to children and their families. Refuge 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 2024 we supported 18 young people. We operated four feeding programs for children which provide two meals per week to approximately 180 children in Jutiquile, La Mansion, Villa Nueva, and Trujillo. We increased distribution of food baskets to needy families, distributing more than 350. A group of 31 traveled to Honduras in June and July 2024 and participated in campaigns with 22 Students from Baxter Institute and poured concrete floors in four houses and painted classrooms at two churches. Four Seminars were conducted In 2024 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 13 students received a 13-week computer literacy course. In Honduras, we continued a BECA program, which provides stipends to 18 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 180 youngsters and a small number of older people are provided two meals per week. Our Resource Center and the group who traveled to Honduras in June and July distributed more than 300 food baskets. In September, we sponsored a Kids Against Packing event in Jacks Creek, TN and packaged more than 2800 dehydrated food packets containing more than 17,000 meals were sent to Honduras for distribution. Funds were also sent to Guatemala to help with food shortages in El Estor Isabel. and to purchase school backpacks and supplies for youngsters. 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. Our group of 31 people who traveled on a mission trip in June, hosted several seminars for the local congregations and poured concrete floors in four houses and painted classrooms at two churches as well as distributing dozens of food baskets to needy families. 0 92921 92921 Ronnie E Carter Chairman 4 0 0 0 Travis K Gable Director 2 0 0 0 Alan Manley Director 3 0 0 0 Kelly Smith Director 2 0 0 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 49360 67159 67877 68840 95736 348972 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49360 67159 67877 68840 95736 348972 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 348972 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 0 0 0 0 0 49360 67159 67877 68840 95736 348972 1 1 0 0 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Support to Ministers in Honduras: $ 12,900; Group Travel and Lodging: $19,260; Campaigns and Seminars: $12,719; Training and education: $17,535; Feeding Programs, Food Baskets and Construction Projects: $33,322