Eugenia Aviles
Lori Connell
“I thank God for your lives and for your willingness to help women like me who have no opportunities. You open doors for our children and us. You are changing the future! Please continue helping Honduran women and their families. Thank you!”
Eugenia working the Mi Esperanza jewelry studio
Eugenia Aviles was in her last year of high school when she got pregnant with her first child. Determined, she completed her senior year and graduated. She had always dreamed of going to college, but she had now become a mother, and her desire to learn never faded.
Eugenia lives in Santa Ana, outside Tegucigalpa. In 2014, she saw a sign announcing Mi Esperanza would open a Sewing Course. She enrolled, completed the course, and the instructor hired her for a school uniform project. Mi Esperanza offered a train-to-work opportunity to produce 85,000 bracelets a year later. Eugenia did such good work and showed excellent skills that Mi Esperanza offered her the opportunity for continued training and a job in the Mi Esperanza jewelry studio in Tegucigalpa.
EUGENIA AT A GLANCE
Children: 3
Community: Santa Ana
Mi Esperanza Course: Sewing & Jewelry programs
"Not everybody has the opportunities Mi Esperanza has given me. I was educated and then given a job. Without Mi Esperanza, I don't know where or if I would be working now. I know my three girls would not have the opportunities I'm now capable of providing for them," said Eugenia.
Eugenia is an excellent example of how educating women can change future generations. Eugenia is a positive and strong influence in the lives of her three daughters. She teaches them and wants them to know they can be and do anything. And she is there to be the example she wished she had had.