Honduras Offers Prison Scholarships as 2 Million Children Stay Out of School

Published on Honduras Daily · Aug 24, 2026 · Originally reported August 23, 2026 by El Libertador

The Culture Ministry signed a deal with the national prison system to provide 1,000 international certification scholarships for inmates, even as official and independent reports show at least 1.7 to 2 million Honduran children remain out of school for lack of resources.

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