One river — the Motagua — carries an estimated 20 million kilograms of plastic toward the Caribbean Sea every year. We stop it at the source, and we put local people to work doing it.
$12 a month funds one crew member for one full day on the line.
Give $12 a monthEvery gift is weighed against the work: every bag weighed, every kilo published. Crew pay on this coast runs $12 a day — the arithmetic above is exact, not a slogan.
Give a dollar. Give your hands.
February 20, 2027 — twenty-nine kilometers of Honduran coast, five volunteers to a kilometer, every kilo weighed and published. The map is drawn. The blocks are numbered. One of them has your name on it.
This is not only a beach cleanup. It is a town beautification process, and it is a movement. A volunteer does not sign up for a shift. A volunteer joins a total community support project — people of every background standing side by side in the same line, working for one of the most beautiful and needy communities in the world. The chain runs one way: cleanup, beautification, tourism, jobs. Local families are the owners and the beneficiaries of that chain.
Registration opens late November 2026. The book opens at registration opening in late November.
Hands For Honduras, Inc. works in Honduras and from Lannon, Wisconsin. Every initiative below carries its own tag, keeps its own book, and publishes its own numbers. Pick a room. The record is open.
The beach work in this house is one chain — cleanup, beautification, tourism, jobs — a total community support project carried by a movement, the $1 Army, for communities where local families are the owners and the beneficiaries.
Designation discipline. The organization has exactly four donor designations — Clean Water · Animal Welfare · Beach Cleanup · Motagua River Pilot. No initiative in this index creates a fifth. Care For Kids and its arms — the Improvements included — the Farm, the Tower, and the Building Division ride on campaign tags through the flagship hub, and each tag keeps its own book, counted and published. Registering as a volunteer is an application, never a donation door, and the four designations stand exactly as listed, in the open, on the record.
The Motagua River runs nearly 500 kilometers from the highlands of Guatemala to the Gulf of Honduras, gathering the waste of entire cities along the way. Together with its Las Vacas tributary, it delivers an estimated 20 million kilograms of plastic a year into the Caribbean — onto the reefs, fisheries, and beaches that coastal families depend on.
Most ocean cleanups chase plastic after it has already scattered across the sea. We work the river. Interception at the source — barriers, collection crews, and community waste programs — stops plastic while it is still in one place, still cheap to catch, and still out of the food chain.
Our pilot project starts here: local crews, paid fairly, intercepting waste on the Motagua and its tributaries — green jobs that keep families together in Central America instead of forcing dangerous migration in search of work. Every kilogram is mapped, contained, collected, weighed, recorded, and reported.
Removing plastic from the open ocean costs a fortune and catches a fraction. Stopping it in the river — where it starts — is the only math that ever catches up.
Our crews are local residents earning real wages in green jobs. A cleaner river, a fed family, and a reason to stay home — one budget buys all three.
Cleanup is step one. Working with engineer Greg Randall, the collected waste is destined for conversion into diesel fuel and electricity — a permanent answer for Central America's garbage, not an endless cleanup.
$0 raised at build, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
The Gathering week runs February 15–22, 2027, on the Honduran coast from Tela to the Río Leán. The week works the course blocks day by day. Saturday, February 20, 2027 is the line day.
This is not only a beach cleanup. It is a town beautification process. It is a total community support project. Its mission includes bringing additional tourism to one of the most beautiful and needy communities in the world, and tourism in that direction supports local families with new jobs. The chain is one chain, stated plainly: cleanup → beautification → tourism → jobs. Clean ground comes first. A beautified town is the work that follows. Tourism is the direction the work serves. Jobs for local families are the end the chain is built toward. Local families are the owners and the beneficiaries of the whole chain.
This is also a movement — the $1 Army. People come together across ethnicities to do this work: Black, White, Hispanic, and the Garifuna communities who host this shore, working side by side in the same line, on the same day, under the same count. No visitor numbers are promised here. No outcome is guaranteed here. The mission, the direction, and the work are stated. The record will publish what the work does.
The week is shaped in three parts, every day: work mornings, heritage and music evenings, and kids on the beach throughout.
Work mornings. The line stands up in the morning, while the day is young. Blocks work their kilometers, bags move to the weigh stations, and the count builds in the open.
Evenings — heritage and music. Live music stands in the evenings, all the way through the event. The community leaders are brought in, and the community presents its own heritage like no one has ever seen it. This is community-led, stated plainly: the organization hosts. The heritage is presented by the community itself. It is never performed by us.
Kids on the beach throughout. Activities stand lined up for kids on the beaches through the week, alongside the work and alongside the evenings.
A vacation at the same time. The week is a vacation at the same time as it is a work week. Visitors come and see how the Garifuna people live — in their own communities, on their own shore, presented by the community itself.
The meaning of the event, stated in this copy: Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics together — nations together — for one goal, a clean ocean.
29.0 km — MAP-MEASURED. The line runs from the Tela muelle at KM 0, east through Tela Bay, past La Ensenada and Triunfo de la Cruz, around Punta Izopo, and east to the Río Leán mouth at KM 29.0.
This line is map-measured from satellite imagery. A November 2026 GPS survey walks the line, fixes the start pin inside the bay so the measured line is exactly 29.0 km, sets all 29 block boundaries, and confirms station sites and access points on the ground. The November GPS survey note stands with this section until that survey is complete.
The line stands in 29 one-kilometer blocks, numbered west to east. Block 1 at Tela. Block 29 at the Leán mouth. Every block is held by a team of five volunteers, with one block captain in addition to the five. Blocks 1–5: Tela Bay sectors, urban beach. Blocks 6–10: La Ensenada home shore, headquarters ground. Blocks 11–14: the beach line to Triunfo. Blocks 15–17: Punta Izopo sanctuary edge — hand crews only, no machine enters. Blocks 18–29: the buffer shore to the Leán. The mouth blocks are hand ground. Every block carries a rally and shade point at its landward edge — water, shade, bag stock, and the collection point marked with the block number.
Six weigh stations stand along the line. A Tela. B La Ensenada — MAIN, headquarters and the count board. C Triunfo. D park entrance. E Arizona track head, forward headquarters for the eastern line. F Leán field station at the finish. Every station scale is checked with certified test weights before the first load. The check is photographed with the station number and date card in frame and logged in the station book. Numbered bags by sector series stand in paper station books as the book of record, mirrored at headquarters on the hour. The count board at Station B updates on the hour. Independent countersignatures stand at 12:15. The single announcement stands at 12:30.
Block collection point → trailer → weigh station (the record) → truck → landfill separation station (the sorting) → buyers / the landfill cell (the end).
A bag is numbered at the block, weighed at the station, sorted at the landfill station, and receipted at its end. Nothing collected sleeps on the beach. Tractors and trailers haul the filled bags to the weigh stations. Trucks remove the loads to the landfill. Everything is weighed as it runs.
The separation station stands at the municipal disposal site, under written municipal agreement. Trucks tip into a marked receiving lane. Loads are spot-checked against the truck receipt. The sorting line runs on tables, by hand, into category bays: PET plastics · rigid plastics · glass · metal · residual · hazardous — sealed container, crew-lead handling only. A baler compresses PET and rigid plastics for the buyers trucks. Recyclables leave by buyers and collectors trucks, weighed and receipted. Residuals enter the landfill cell under the municipal agreement, weighed at receiving. The published number separates honestly into recovered and landfilled. The hazardous stream is sealed and signed over to the municipal and health-authority channel. Natural material — driftwood, seaweed wrack — is not waste, is never weighed as collected waste, and does not enter the station.
The whole operation is filmed through AI glasses and tracked every day. Wearers: every block captain, every weigh-station keeper, the segment leads, the landfill station receiving lead, and the President. Each block carries a fixed capture sequence: the opening frame at first light, the work, the loads leaving, and the closing frame at stand-down from the same vantage. The tracking log stands per block per day — block number, captain, team count from the credential ledger, bags out by series, kilos from the station book, capture index. Daily proof cuts publish the same evening. The dataset, published after the week, indexes the capture by block and station. Consent discipline stands in full: volunteers consent at registration, a volunteer who declines is placed where the glasses grammar does not run, no capture is ever directed at a minor, and no directed filming stands over the sanctuary nesting sectors.
Crews are the unit of assignment, rotation, and tally. The 45-minute water-and-shade rotation is enforced by captains, staggered inside the block so the line never empties. Minors stand with a guardian only, off the water line, and never inside a machine block. No volunteer enters the surf. River-mouth blocks are bank work in sight of the captain. Machine blocks are flagged, one operator, one spotter, walking pace on shuttle routes. The First Pass runs at dawn, with the President riding at the head of the home segment before the massed line deploys.
If the buffer-zone authorization for the eastern shore slips past the January training checkpoint, the attempt contracts to a shorter course: La Ensenada, past the home shore and Triunfo de la Cruz, around Punta Izopo, and toward Arizona — approximately 20–25 km, run with the same blocks, the same five-per-kilometer density on its shorter line, the same weigh stations and proof stack, the same landfill separation station, and the same glasses layer. The claims that stand under the fallback ride on continuity and proof. The full 29.0 km line then re-stages as the Rolling Line next count day, once the authorization and the eastern staffing are real. The line that runs is the line that was authorized. The record it makes is the record that was designed.
Clean sand needs a truck behind it. The garbage-truck campaign rides the Beach Cleanup designation with its own tag.
Give to Beach Cleanup Give to the garbage-truck campaign
Volunteers Plan your trip Book your own room
$0 raised at build, from the book only. The $32,000 garbage-truck campaign goal stands in its own campaign book.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
Our people are working now, in the communities that need it most. Five years of planning, built with the communities who live on these shores — not dropped on them.
In the Garifuna community of La Ensenada, we work directly with local leaders — the people in this photo. Our beach cleanup, education day, and children's party there were funded personally by our founder, who put more than $7,000 of his own money into a single day of work and celebration for the community. That is the model everywhere we go: local leadership, local crews, local pride.
In Triunfo de la Cruz, another Garifuna community on Honduras' north coast, our crews clear debris street by street — wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow, truckload by truckload — before the rains can wash it into the sea. Every load hauled out is plastic that never reaches a reef, a fishing ground, or a child's beach.
In Colonia Ronaldo Cárcamo, one of the most impoverished communities we serve, we have acquired a community kitchen and are converting a neighboring building at the base of the mountain into a medicine distribution point — food and basic medicine, including treatment for parasites and infection, for families left homeless by hurricanes, families in poverty, and hungry children.
Poverty hits animals first and hardest. We provide food, shelter, and treatment for the street dogs of Honduras, working with local veterinarians at a fraction of U.S. costs, so small donations save whole lives. The big dog in this photo is Puppy, rescued off the street by our founder; the little black-and-white puppy in his arms is Baxter. That is the promise behind our no-kill work: every rescue gets to grow up loved.
“We are a no-kill operation working with the best vets in the area at less than a quarter of the cost of the United States.” — Hands for Honduras, Animal Welfare Initiative
Clean water at the well, the school, and the kitchen door. Carried in full in the On the Ground and Programs sections above and below — the community kitchen and medicine building in Colonia Ronaldo Cárcamo stand at the center of this work.
$0 raised at build, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
Creatures created for this habitat, protected in it — patrols, habitat, and the buy-and-release. The Punta Izopo sanctuary startup stands at $250,000 — fix the buildings, establish boundaries, turtle protection watch, reforestation, habitat, and the buy-and-release program for animals about to be eaten — presented always as coordination, protection, and expansion with Garifuna leaders and PROLANSATE under ICF/SINAPH, never as the creation of an unprotected sanctuary.
$0 raised at build, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
Every gift to Hands for Honduras can be designated to the work that moves you most. Every designation is honored.
The flagship. River interception crews and barriers stopping an estimated 20 million kilograms of plastic a year at the source.
Paid local crews restoring the beaches of La Ensenada and Triunfo de la Cruz — and the Garifuna communities who call them home.
Clean water for communities in drastic need — alongside the community kitchen and medicine building in Colonia Ronaldo Cárcamo.
A no-kill commitment to Honduras' street animals and the marine life of the Caribbean — food, shelter, medicine, and second chances.
A child needs food in her belly, a book in her hands, and medicine when she is sick. Care For Kids is all three — the Community Kitchen (feeding arm), Education (books arm), and the Cárcamo Clinic (healthcare arm).
Total: $64,300, built line by line. Raised at build: $0, from the book only. No dollar is counted twice across the two trackers.
The clinic plan of record: a nurse on staff at all times at roughly $200 a week, and a part-time doctor for patient evaluations at approximately $300 a day, 2 days a week (8 days a month), with supplies including a medical bed, blood pressure equipment, needles, antibiotics, parasite medicines for children, and basic suture and wound-cleaning equipment, in a room inside the Community Kitchen building in Colonia Ronaldo Cárcamo.
$0 raised at build toward $64,300, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
The Improvements are the Cárcamo clinic build — the nurse’s office, the nurse, the stocking, and the Care For Kids Community Center educational upgrades and supplies — priced line by line at $64,300.
Block 1 — The unused room. In the same building as the Community Kitchen there is a bedroom nobody uses. Children eat in one room and, when they are sick, there is no room at all. That ends with this initiative. The unused room becomes the nurse’s office — the place where medicine is kept, counted, and given out by a nurse the neighborhood knows by name.
Block 2 — The nurse. A room does not heal anybody. A nurse does. This initiative installs a nurse in that office and covers her salary, so the office is not a shelf with a lock on it. It is a person, present on the days the clinic plan sets, who knows which child needs the parasite medicine and which mother needs the blood-pressure check.
Block 3 — Stocked shelves. Medicine on a manifest is not medicine in a child’s hand. The office is stocked before it is opened — the equipment it needs, the materials it uses every week, and a reserve so the shelf does not go empty in the second month. What is stocked is counted. What is given out is counted. The book is published, like every book in this house.
Block 4 — The kitchen learns. The same building gets its second gift. The Community Kitchen is updated for learning — educational supplies, computers, and the materials a child needs to study where she eats. A fed child who can read and compute is the whole point of Care For Kids. The kitchen has fed them for years. Now it teaches in the same room.
Block 5 — The number. The whole improvement — the office, the nurse, the stocked shelves, the learning kitchen — is a $64,300 work, and it is sold the way this house sells everything: as one finished thing a giver can point to. When it is done, the building that feeds the children also heals them and teaches them, and every dollar of it stands in the published record.
Block 6 — The door. Help us finish the building. Give to Care For Kids — The Improvements, and your gift is tagged, counted, and published against the room, the nurse, and the shelves it paid for.
P.S. One dollar a month joins the $1 Army at 1dollararmy.org. Every soldier counts. Every kilo, every meal, and every medicine is published.
| Line | What it covers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| A — The nurse’s office (the unused bedroom, converted) | A1 Room works and fit-out · A2 Dispensing counter, lockable medicine storage, shelving · A3 Door, signage, and the office’s share of building services | $22,000 |
| B — The nurse, installed | B1 Recruitment, credential verification, and placement · B2 Onboarding, uniform, and the nurse’s own working kit | $2,500 |
| C — Nurse salary coverage | C1 Salary line — nurse on staff at all times, $200 per week · C2 Coverage reserve | $10,400 |
| D — Equipment for the office | D1 Examination and dispensing equipment · D2 Blood-pressure and basic diagnostic equipment · D3 Cold storage | $15,000 |
| E — Stocking the office | E1 Opening medicine stock · E2 Consumable materials · E3 Restock reserve | $4,000 |
| F — The Care For Kids Community Center educational upgrades and supplies | F1 Educational supplies · F2 Computers · F3 Learning materials and study furniture | $8,000 |
| G — Reporting | G1 Accounting in Honduras, $200 a month ($2,400 a year) · G2 The count itself — the office’s book, the stock ledger, and their publication | $2,400 |
| CAMPAIGN TOTAL | $64,300 | |
The budget is built line by line; the total is the sum of the lines. Scope guard: Line F is the Care For Kids Community Center line — educational upgrades and supplies: books, educational supplies, computers, and learning materials. It is not the kitchen $5,000 completion line. That line stands separately, below.
$0 raised at build toward $64,300, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
Books and school supplies in the hands of the children the kitchen feeds. The kitchen’s learning update is funded inside The Improvements — see the Clinic arm.
Give to EducationCommunity Kitchen completion — $5,000. This line stands as its own line. It is not merged into the Improvements budget and it is not merged into the clinic budget in this build. Its relationship ruling remains open, and the page carries it separately until that ruling lands in the open.
Give to Care For KidsTheir land. Their food. Our hands and machines.
Track one — community land: Hands For Honduras does not buy Garifuna community land at Punta Izopo. The cooperative and community there own it. The organization would run a fundraising campaign to plant a large sector of the community’s own property so the community has food. Track two — organization land: any land the organization itself buys sits outside the community, worked with the same farm equipment, and its food serves indigenous families outside the community as well as the Garifuna.
Food insecurity is the driver: about 60 percent of the people in the communities this house works in cannot afford to buy food to eat.
$0 raised at build, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
The Flagship Map — Preview
This is the shore the Gathering covers on February 20, 2027 — drawn live on the same map system the largest cleanup organizations in the world use, and filled with our own measured ground: the Tela pier at kilometer 0, La Ensenada, Triunfo de la Cruz, the river mouths, the cape, and the Río Leán. Drag it. Zoom it. Every marker is a real place our crews will stand, and every weigh station on this line will report its kilos back to this map — judged by the weight on the scale, published for the world to check.
Preliminary course, drawn from the team’s satellite measurement of October 2026. The November ground survey sets the final track.
The Tower — the President’s concept picture.
This picture is an artist's concept of the finished farm.
The finished four-story farm — fish below, pigs and chickens in the middle stories, vegetables under glass on top.
Phase 1 — the stocked ground-level farm — $150,000.
Raised at build: $0, from the book only. Nothing built until it stands.
Phase 1 is the stocked ground-level farm. Leased land, year one. All four production lines at ground level — the ground tilapia unit, the pig barn, the chicken house, and the shade-house hydroponics — with the well, critical solar, the feed store, fencing and equipment, and first-cycle stocking. Phase 1 produces food in year one. Its modules become the tower nursery and quarantine yard when the tower rises.
Phase 1: $150,000 — the ground farm, stocked. Phase 2: land purchase, $74,000. Phase 3: the tower itself, the balance of the build on the President’s basis, gated on the structural engineer stamped design and the Honduran counsel opinion on land holding. First-year operating stands as its own figure, never folded into development: approximately $35,000 per year.
The request is built on the engineered column. Every line is sourced or labeled. Nothing is padded. That is the budget this house asks for, and the budget this house accounts against. The above-build costs ride on top of the build in the request, itemized, because a funder funds a stocked, working farm, not an empty building.
Engineered column, development total for the full tower, built and stocked, land on the purchase basis: approximately $464,000. Land (purchase): $74,000. Site works: $24,000. Construction — frame, slabs, fit-outs, roof: $195,000. Systems — well, water, fish plant, hydroponics, power: $94,500. Animals and stocking, first cycle: $31,300. Equipment and tools: $11,000. Contingency: $34,700. All-in year one on the engineered column, with first-year operating: approximately $499,000.
We can accomplish it for cheaper.
The delivery basis is Greg Randall’s system. The President’s working number is $75 a square foot, and that covers everything on cost to develop. The same building in the United States stands at approximately $250 a square foot — $2,325,000 for this building at home. The President’s Honduras build estimate stands at approximately $60 a square foot. The full stocked tower on the President’s basis: approximately $849,300 development, and approximately $884,300 all-in in year one, with first-year operating carried separately at approximately $35,000.
Any difference between the requested budget and the delivered cost stays in the mission and is reported — weighed, published, and accounted on the same open book as every kilogram this organization handles.
The President makes the budgets. His figures govern delivery. The engineered column stands as the verifiable check. A reader of this page sees both numbers, which column the request is built on, and who stands behind the delivery. Nothing is hidden, and nothing is bent.
Individual costs, itemized separately: Plumbing — water storage and distribution, well-to-header-tank circuit rough-in: $8,000. Fish setup — six 20 m³ lined tanks, solids settler, biofilter, mineralizer, aeration and pumps: $24,000. Animals, fish — tilapia fingerlings and feed to first harvest: $5,400. Animals, pigs — 60 weaners and feed to first harvest: $12,800. Animals, chickens — 600 point-of-lay hens, 400 broiler chicks, and feed to first harvest: $13,100. Planting — dirt, media, seed: $3,500, estimate, field-priced in Phase 0. Equipment and tools: $11,000. Subtotal, individual costs: $77,800. Land stands separately and is never folded into the build. Lease alternative, year one and deposit: approximately $8,000–16,000. Leasing is how Phase 1 runs. Purchase is Phase 2.
Area schedule: Footprint 12 m × 18 m. Four levels. Total developed floor: 864 m², approximately 9,300 sq ft. Level 1, grade: fish hall. Level 2: pigs — 60 fattener places. Level 3: chickens — 600 layers and a 400-bird broiler pen. Level 4, top: vegetables — approximately 150 m² growing under shade and rain roof.
Greg Randall’s system is the delivery method for this build. Greg is an electrical contractor, a plumbing contractor, a building engineer, and site management — four trades in one accountable hand. He holds a system design of his own — a way of building that holds costs down without cutting the structure strength.
The structure is designed on the Category 3 wind basis the engineering breakdown specifies — poured reinforced-concrete frame, strapped light roof, raised flood pad — and Greg’s system is the method that delivers that design in Honduras at the President’s rate.
Honesty block. The photograph on this page is a concept render, labeled as a concept. The build is phased. No yield is published before it is weighed. No land money moves until Honduran counsel confirms the lawful holding structure and the President passes the purchase. Dollars in stand against the total. Built stands stage by stage, only as it stands. Every harvest is weighed and published when producing begins.
$0 raised at build toward Phase 1 $150,000, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
A family should not sleep on dirt.
Block 1 — The floor. In the communities we serve, families live in houses with dirt floors. Rain turns the floor to mud. Children crawl on it, sleep beside it, and breathe its dust. Parasites enter through bare feet. A dirt floor is not a small hardship. It is a daily sickness that never leaves the house.
Block 2 — Floors first. So the Building Division starts with the floor. A poured concrete floor under a family is the cheapest dignity we know how to build. It is dry. It is clean. It can be swept. A child can sit on it and read. We call this the Floors Initiative, and it is the first rung of the ladder: floor first, then walls, then a whole home.
Block 3 — Whole homes. Above the floor, we build whole homes for families who have none. One home, built all the way, before we promise the second. A home with a real floor, solid walls, a roof that holds out the rain, and a door that locks. The family helps choose the site on their own ground. The community keeps its land. We bring the crew, the materials, and the plan.
Block 4 — The builder. This division is led by a builder. Shawn David Jacobson spent 25 years completing million-dollar multi-family construction projects, on schedule and on budget, leading crews he hired and trained himself. He states his gap plainly, the way this house states every gap: he has not yet built homes at scale in Honduras, and this division has not yet built its first home. That is what the first home proves. His construction record is real, it is long, and it is the reason this division exists.
Block 5 — Paid local crews. Local people build these homes, and local people are paid to build them. Honduran masons and laborers from the communities themselves — hired, trained, and paid at fair local wages. Every home is also jobs. Every floor poured is also a paycheck in the village that received it.
Block 6 — Weighed and published. Every home is counted. Every floor is counted. Dollars in, floors poured, homes built, families housed — published on this page, in the open, the same discipline as the kilos off the river. We do not announce a village of homes. We build the first home, publish it, and let the record argue for the second.
Block 7 — The door. Help us pour the first floor. Give to the Building Division and your gift is tagged, counted, and published against a real family’s name and a real address we can show you when the work is done.
P.S. One dollar a month joins the $1 Army at 1dollararmy.org. Every soldier counts. Every kilo and every floor is published.
A concrete floor under a family that sleeps on dirt. One floor is a finished work. It does not wait for a whole house. No home count is promised. No village is promised. The page sells the first home and the first floor, and the published record carries the rest.
$0 raised at build, from the book only.
Nothing built yet. Nothing reads built before it stands.
Book opens with this build — October 27, 2026. A dated log line follows every dollar movement and every stage completion.
Lucy was found on the north side of Milwaukee.
Matt was working a job site there. He came to work in the morning, and she was there. He came the next day, and she was there. Every day he came, she was there — waiting.
He cared for her where she was. He was not sure. A man cannot be sure about a dog he has just met. But she came every day, and every day she waited for him.
Three days in, he took her to the veterinarian. He took her to be washed. And then he brought her home.
She has been with him ever since. She never left his side. She is part of the family.
That is the whole story, and it is enough. A dog nobody claimed waited three days for the one man who stopped. The man stopped. She has not stopped standing beside him since.
Now she stands at the front of a mission. The dog who was rescued now helps rescue a coastline. Lucy is the mascot of Hands For Honduras, Inc. and Caribbean Cleanup, and the face of the $1 Army — because rescue is not a program here. It is what this house does, for a dog on a job site in Milwaukee and for a shore in Honduras, with the same hands.
Stand with her. One dollar a month puts you in the Army beside Lucy, and every dollar is published by the kilogram it moves.
P.S. Join the $1 Army at 1dollararmy.org. Lucy holds her post every day. Hold yours beside her.
Secretary and Head of Operations in Central America · Board Secretary · Based in Honduras
Every plan this organization makes is carried out in Honduras — and on the ground, Evert Villafranca Paz is the boss. A Honduran national based in Honduras, he holds field command of all our Central America operations: he assembles the local crews — an army drawn from the communities themselves — directs the daily work, and runs the operation more cost-effectively than any outside team ever could. He knows the terrain, the rivers, and the people because they are his own.
Evert also serves as Secretary of Hands for Honduras, Inc., one of the three officers of our 501(c)(3). He is not support staff; he is integral to this mission, and needed at its center. His seat on the board means the man who commands the work in Honduras also helps govern the organization behind it — decisions are made with the ground, not just about it.
Caribbean Cleanup is an initiative of Hands for Honduras, Inc. — a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit working hand-in-hand with Honduran communities since 2021.
Coordinates all efforts in Honduras and the Caribbean, working directly with community leaders on the ground. He brings 25 years of completing million-dollar projects in the multi-family construction industry — on schedule and on budget, leading crews he hired and trained — to a problem that has never had a builder running it.
The steady hand of this organization. A Green Bay building-company owner with an accountant's eye, Matthew is diligent, calm, and collected under pressure — the advisor the President runs everything past, and listens to. A man of deep faith, he holds this mission together with patience, integrity, and daily loyalty.
The boss on the ground in Honduras: he assembles the local crews, directs the daily field work, and commands all operations across the region.
Leads the organization's waste-management and waste-to-fuel engineering: turning collected river waste into diesel fuel and electricity, the plan's final stage.
We believe the Earth is God's household, and caring for it is the work He gave us. Around the world, poor communities depend on clean rivers, clean beaches, and a living sea for their food and their future. We serve them — and the children, animals, and waters in our care — as a matter of faith and of fact.
Matthew M. Clemens wears many hats in this house, and he wears every one of them well.
He is the Vice President and Treasurer. He keeps the books. He runs the multimedia. He is the daily engine of the mission — the man whose hands are on the work every single day.
As Treasurer, his is the final word on money. Every financial decision in this organization is finalized by Matt — and he does not make those decisions alone. He makes them with Jesus by his side. Every dollar the Army gives is counted by a man who answers for it to the Lord and to the giver alike.
Lucy is the proof of who he is. A stray dog waited three days for him on a job site in Milwaukee, and he did not walk past her. He cared for her where she was. He took her to the veterinarian, and he brought her home. She has never left his side since. That dedication — to animals, and to family in the Lord Jesus — is what makes Matt special.
Matt is also an ordained minister. He and the President share one focus and one reason. Both men are driven by the Lord Jesus. Both men have set their hands to His household — this earth, and everything in it that He loves.
The President says it plainly, and this page prints it the same way: Matt is the main cog in this operation, and without him it would not succeed. He is the one who drives this organization. And this organization is blessed to have him.
Head of Engineering & Conservation Works
Some men join a mission and ask what it needs. Greg Randall asked, and then he went and bought the tractors.
Greg is the engineer of this house — an electrical contractor, a plumbing contractor, a building engineer, and site management, all in one pair of hands. He heads our waste management and our engineering. He leads every field operation we run. And when this mission needed iron on the beach, he did not wait for a grant. He is investing his own money in tractors, beach rakes, and equipment — a personal donation, from the man himself, because the work could not wait.
On February 20, 2027, when the line stands up along 29 kilometers of Honduran coast, every weigh station on it answers to Greg. That is who he is: the engineer who brings his own iron.
Four trades, one man — the whole build, from the wire to the roof, under a single accountable hand.
Greg builds on a system design of his own — a way of building that holds costs down without cutting the structure’s strength. His buildings are designed to withstand hurricanes, engineered on a Category 3 wind basis, because a building on that coast that cannot stand the storm is not a building. It is a delay.
Greg heads the work at the Punta Izopo sanctuary — the tree planting, the improvements, the protection of a place that shelters some of the most remarkable creatures on that coast. His charge from the President is simple to say and a life’s work to do: make it the finest sanctuary in the world.
Greg is the technical lead of the waste-to-fuel endgame: turning intercepted river garbage into diesel fuel and electricity, starting at five tons of garbage a day. It is the plan’s final answer for waste in Central America — the river’s plastic, stopped at the source, and put to work. Nobody else in this house carries that design. Greg does.
The tractors, the beach rakes, the equipment this mission runs on — Greg is investing in them personally. Not a sponsorship. Not a line in a budget. A personal donation, by him himself, because he believes the work should not have to wait for permission to begin.
That is the whole resume. The rest, he intends to build.
The Motagua's garbage has a source, a route, and — now — a road map. Our pilot starts in the small riverside communities and finishes in the capital, so every donor sees what we are reaching for.
≈5 million pounds of garbage a day — our founder's estimate for the greater capital, and the records back it up (see below).
The tributary that drains the capital. Every rain washes the city's waste down this channel toward the Motagua.
~500 km east past 90+ riverside communities — El Progreso, Zacapa, Gualán, Puerto Barrios among them — gathering waste the whole way.
An estimated 20 million kg of plastic a year reaches the Gulf of Honduras (The Ocean Cleanup) — onto reefs, fisheries, and the beaches of the poor.
Step zero is an atlas: overhead imagery and the name of every community along the Las Vacas and the Motagua — more than ninety, in Guatemala and Honduras. One campaign reaches them all — schools, churches, radio, and local leaders teaching why the river is not a dump and where waste goes instead. Nothing else holds without it.
Every community gets a containment wall along its riverbank, built with drainage that lets rainwater through and keeps garbage in — engineered for the rainy-season floods that turn this river into a trash tsunami. Each named community becomes a stop on the plan: its own education campaign, its own wall, its own crew.
Contained waste has to go somewhere. Paid local crews collect it community by community, and under Head Engineer Greg Randall the stream feeds disposal and waste-to-fuel conversion — garbage in, diesel and electricity out.
The plan finishes where the garbage starts: a world-class waste facility for the capital, built to take millions of pounds a day and end the river of trash permanently — a river running clean past ninety villages, and a great city's garbage turned to fuel instead of poison.
Budget figures marked as estimates are the founder's long-range planning numbers for the full vision; detailed engineering budgets are developed phase by phase with our Head Engineer. Money raised today funds the phases in order — education and the pilot communities first.
Hands for Honduras is a Christian organization answering the two great commandments of our Lord Jesus: to love God with all our heart, and to love our neighbor as ourselves — and our neighbor is everyone. The Earth is the Lord's household, and He has entrusted it to our care.
So we show His love in action: stopping the poison in the rivers before it reaches His ocean, bringing clean water to His children, feeding the hungry, sheltering His creatures, and leaving His household cleaner than we found it.
Matthew 22:37–39 · Psalm 24:1 · Genesis 2:15
Our official emblem — Honduras, in His hands. At its center is Honduras itself, large in the blue and white of its flag with its five stars, cupped in golden hands rising from the waters this ministry protects. Behind the country the sun rises; at the heart of the sun burns the cross, empty and glowing. Honduras is held in the hands of the Lord Jesus — held, never dropped.
The Wave & Reef — the Caribbean Cleanup logo. One great turquoise wave curls protectively around living coral and reef fish, with the river flowing in at the top — stopped before it can poison the sea. That is Caribbean Cleanup in a single image: stop the plastic in the river, protect the reef and the Caribbean Sea beyond it.
The Evidence
We built a library of the studies behind this mission — why plastic pollution stands among the major problems of the next ten years, what becomes irreversible if no real solution lands soon, and the measured proof that stopping it at the source works. Eighty studies and reports, each one a press away.
Christians are one of the largest families on Earth — more than two billion strong, and well over 200 million in the United States alone. We are inviting every church, every Christian group, and every believer to do the Lord Jesus' work together: love our neighbors, help the underprivileged around the world, and care for His household.
Per believer · one gift. If Christians across the United States each gave just $10 — one Sunday, one gift — the river could be stopped, local crews could be paid, clean water could flow, and this work would be funded. No one has to give a lot when everyone gives a little in Jesus' name.
Why the ocean? Because it feeds people who cannot buy food. Of all God created, the sea is one of His greatest gifts — it gives food to families who fish these waters because they cannot buy food. When plastic poisons the rivers and the sea, it takes food from their tables and threatens their children's future. Cleaning up the Lord's household is loving our neighbor — the ones who need Jesus' help most, and who are waiting for the Church to show up.
Ask everyone in your congregation to give $10 — as a special offering, a missions Sunday, or a simple pass-the-hat moment with a purpose. One church giving together can fund a cleanup crew, a day of clean water, or medicine for a community that has almost nothing.
Put Hands for Honduras in your missions budget, pray for our crews in Honduras by name, and share this story with your people. We will show your church exactly where its gifts land — the river, the beaches, clean water, or the animals — because every designation is honored.
Bible studies, youth groups, men's and women's ministries, and Christian schools: take the challenge together. Give $10, join the $1 Army, and invite three more believers to do the same. Small groups, multiplied by the whole Church, become an army.
All gifts are tax-deductible in the U.S. through Hands for Honduras, Inc., a 501(c)(3) — EIN 86-3216704. Churches and groups can designate gifts to River, Beaches, Water, or Animals.
No one person can fund the rescue of a sea. But a billion people giving a single dollar can — and together we become a wave no plastic can outrun. The ask is tiny on purpose, so nobody is priced out of saving the ocean.
“A dollar to save the ocean, from a billion hearts.”
Gifts are processed through CaribbeanCleanup.org and are tax-deductible in the U.S. through Hands for Honduras, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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