Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos

Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), literally meaning Our little brothers and sisters, is a charitable organization that has provided a home for thousands of orphans and abandoned children since 1954.

The official mission of NPH is "to provide shelter, food, clothing, healthcare and education in a Christian family environment based on unconditional acceptance and love, sharing, working and responsibility."

This philosophy and mission engenders in NPH children a spirit of trust, confidence, and sharing toward others, attitudes which are unusual in persons with histories of abuse or abandonment.

As Erich Fromm, the renowned psychologist, has pointed out in a study that he conducted with Michael Maccoby of the NPH organization: "The boys and girls come from the poorest classes, from families in which the mother has died and, in about 80 percent of the cases, in which the father has abandoned the children.

To date over 16,000 children have been cared for in NPH homes in the countries of Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico.

In Haiti, the poorest country, NPH also built the largest pediatric hospital of the Caribbean area, "St Damien", thanks to father Richard Frechette.

Taking care of the daily needs of the children are caregivers made up of older pequenos who devote a year of service to their younger siblings, as well as volunteers from around the world.