About the Olancho Aid Foundation
Mary Roy, Founder of the Honduran Mission Team of New Hampshire
“After one trip to Honduras I felt compelled to help my parish community to truly understand the reality of the poor of this region and to embrace a people and culture so far away. I just knew that my trip would not be the end of my journey…” -Mary Roy
Mary Roy went on her first mission trip in February of 1993, when an acquaintance who had been to Honduras needed a female chaperone at the last minute. She traveled to Honduras, a country she knew nothing about, for the first time with a group of people she had never met and fell in love with the people and their culture. Mary returned home from that trip with a renewed sense of faith and a new feeling of obligation to the community around her. With the support of her former employer, the priest at a local church, she started her own mission trip, based out of Nashua, NH in 1994. The first trip had 8 people, and currently about 18 to 25 people make the trip each year. She has even brought two of her own daughters, a niece and her grandson. What was a spur of the moment decision has truly become a calling; a devotion to the people and country of Honduras.
