The Vision

Villa el Carmen is comprised of rural farming communities with scarce resources and limited access to health care, educational facilities, modern infrastructure and marketplaces to sell goods. In total, 49 communities are scattered throughout the municipality, and their residents are looking to local and national governments and private businesses to provide employment opportunities and social services that they desperately need.

Hope and Development Foundation is determined to link recreational tourism and responsible real estate development with social responsibility in a lifetime marriage of resources. By implementing a comprehensive social development plan, Hope and Development Foundation seeks to provide primary and secondary education, vocational training, job opportunities and improved health.

The Hope and Development Foundation will not be the first program to have a presence in Villa El Carmen; already, several Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) are at work to alleviate the effects of pressing problems facing the people of the area. These organizations address issues in many key areas, including health care, education, economic development, family and social development and physical development, and have become experts in their respective spheres of influence in their work. Even so, they often work independently of each other, opening the door for duplication of services or inefficiencies in the implementation of their programs. The Hope and Development Foundation hopes to cooperate with each of these organizations to bring the greatest success possible by sharing knowledge and successes.

The solution to the problem of poverty and lack of opportunity in Villa El Carmen must be holistic in its approach and must address every critical need. Part of this solution is the Hope and Development Foundation, an organization which can implement and oversee the coordination and integration of entities from the private and public sector in order to provide life-changing solutions for the communities of Villa El Carmen.