Christmas celebrations in 2007.

San Pedro Sula is a market town where agricultural products such as coffee or bananas are prepared for international transportation. It is also a center for light industry in the country. The most important airport in Honduras is located here, and the Caribbean coast is only 40 kilometers further north. San Pedro Sula is an important crossroads, and has the highest level of AIDS infection in the whole of Central America.

The city is home to the Amor Y Vida foundation, which has been looking after children with AIDS since 1994. The foundation runs an orphanage for children aged between 4 and 18 whose parents are either dead or have rejected them because they have AIDS. The foundation offers them schooling up to the sixth grade, after which they have to try to find a traineeship on the open market.

For the 36 children in the orphanage, Knorr-Bremse Global Care has funded the building of a new wing to house a printing press, which should offer them a chance of receiving training that is otherwise difficult to find. But the orphanage will also benefit – the additional income will make it less dependent on donations.

One of the orphans in the kitchen garden.

Children with vegetables from the garden.