Our Directors and Volunteers

Mike is our chief fundraiser and primary spokesperson for the organization, making presentations to Rotary Clubs.  

He is past president and member of the Castlegar Sunrise Rotary Club and was named Castlegar Citizen the Year in 2024.  Mike is a retired School Principal and has worked as a curriculum consultant to the Department of Education and the University of British Columbia.    

Gwen coordinates our programs in Santa Barbara and has been travelling to, and working  closely with members of the Honduras Santa Barbara Rotary Club for more than 25  years.  She is a member of the Creston Rotary Club.   

She is a CGA, owner/manager of Piper Farm and the retired manager of JH Huscroft, a Creston Valley. sawmill started by her grandfather in 1927.  

Brenda keeps our operations running smoothly and has travelled to Honduras on the annual inspection tours on my occasions.  

She is past president of the Castlegar Sunrise Rotary Club.  She is a committed volunteer for many organizations in her community, and was named Castlegar Citizen of the Year in 2024.  She is a retired educator and librarian.  

Heather loves our students in Honduras, and maintains the data base of sponsors and students,  doing her best to ensure that every sponsor gets certificates and photos of their kids.

She is Past-President and member  of the Rotary Club of Creston and an active volunteer in her community.  She was named Creston Valley Citizen of the Year in 2021.   

Chris has been a member of the Nelson Noon Rotary Club for many years, and a member of the club’s International Committee.   The Market Children program run by Help Honduras is a particular passion of his, and together with Help Honduras  Director Elaine Beaulac, coordinates member donations in Nelson.

Chris is a veterinarian who has recently retired from active practice, and now volunteers for various organizations..

Sharon is a past-president and member of the Grand Forks Rotary Club.  She worked as a lab and x-ray tech for over thirty years and is owner of Boundary Industries Ltd.

She loves taking pictures of the kids in Honduras as she gets so many hugs.

Chris has been involved with HELP Honduras since  2011,  and travels there most years as a member of the HELP review team, and to check on her club's projects in Tegucigalpa and Comayagua.  

She is  a retired business owner and past- president and member  of the Victoria Harbourside Rotary Club since 1989.  She is an active member of her club's International Service Committee.  

Bill started collaborating with Ron Ross and Don Kaminsky in 2010 to draft applications for Rotary Foundation Global Grants to train impoverished women working in the markets in financial literacy, business, and entrepreneurship.  He has travelled to Honduras most years since 2006 as a member of our Review Team, and to review projects his Rotary club has sponsored in Comayagua and Tegucigalpa.  

Bill is past-president and member of the Victoria Harbourside Rotary Club since 1983.  

David travelled to Honduras for many years, using his Spanish speaking skills to connect with the children we support.  

He is a member of the Cranbrook Rotary club, and has been involved with Central American Rotary projects for many years.  He is the retired Operations Manager at Fort Steele Heritage Town and is a  member of the Cranbrook Railway Museum.

Elaine and her late husband Ron Ross were the founders of HELP Honduras, and it was their passion and purpose for many years.   Together they traveled to Tegucigalpa each year to take pictures of the kids, and meet with the Rotarians and the AyO staff who implemented the program.    They rallied support for the project in Canada, and Elaine took care of the student records.  Elaine is a member of the Castlegar Sunrise Rotary Club and remains on the Board as a valuable contributor.

Elaine serves as the membership chair of HELP Honduras.  

She and her husband Chuck, along with John and Nancy Mackay, all of the Nelson Rotary Club,  visited Alternatives and Opportunities, our partner in Honduras many years ago.   She has been working to support the program ever since.  

She and Chris Chart are coordinators of the donations and students for the Nelson area Rotary clubs.    

Maureen is retired as CEO of the United Way of Victoria after 27 years of service.  She is member and past-president of the Rotary Club of Victoria Harbourside and is very active in the International Committee.  She served as a Director of  HELP Honduras for two years,  before resigning in 2019.  Her commitment to HELP Honduras remains constant, being part of the team who goes to Honduras many years, and is the HELP “Angel” who campaigns for donations to the Market Kids Program in her Rotary club.

Mandy is a retired chartered accountant and a member of the Rotary Club of Kelowna – Ogopogo since 1998.  She is a member of the International Committee  and has been the primary District and Global Grant writer for her club ever since.

Mandy has been the lead contact for four  Rotary Foundation  Grants focused on the Early Childhood Stimulation and Caregiver Training, and is currently  installing Chispa Libraries in schools..

She works with the Executive on all things financial, and is one of the Help Honduras “Angels” campaigning clubs in the Okanagan for donations to help sponsor students through Help Honduras.

Jean, together with her late husband John, were long-time dairy farmers in the Creston Valley when they first became interested in the Rotary projects in Honduras in 2012.

She is a member of the Creston Rotary Club since 2018 and serves on their International Service Committee.  She is a big supporter of the programs in Santa Barbara and  Comayagua and funds many student scholarships there and in the Market Children Program.  

She visits Honduras most years, and studying Spanish has become one of her  passions.

Richard is the person in any organization everyone loves – he is our “techy” and helps find solutions to our communications and technology problems.  He is a member of the Creston Rotary Club and has travelled to Honduras with the team many times. 

He is a member of the Creston Rotary Club and an active volunteer in his community.