ER INTERNATIONAL: April 2014

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Kyna's trip to Roatan March/April 2014

Kyna, Joey's therapist, from Houston, Texas, came to Roatan, last week of March first week in April, to do follow up, and evaluations on Joey, and a few other kids at NUNA, Academy, and also she did a half day training seminar with the teachers there.

It was a busy week for Kyna, she spent several days at NUNA, and then she spent a few hours with Ms Deborah Hunnicutt, at SRCS, which is the ACE/PACE school where we do the back pack program, just giving Deborah some help with some of the students there. She also spent some time at Cattleya Learning Center, which is a center for children with intellectual challenges, helping some of the parents and teachers just by giving some basic training to help with some of the students there. And it just so happened to be Autism Awareness Month, which i thought that was pretty cool that she was here during that time, since she works with children with Autism, and other special needs and behavioral issues!

As always we love having Kyna come to help us, she is amazing at what she does, and i can first hand say that her hard work and dedication to her work, pays off. I know my son has improved so much since she started working with him, almost 4 years now, and we are truly grateful to her, and her heart and passion for working with and helping these children!

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Since its founding in 2003 by Ernie and Robyn Breaux, ER International has been dedicated to helping disabled children, runaways, and young mothers find hope and support while learning of the love of Jesus Christ. Separately, both Ernie and Robyn had dedicated their lives to meeting the needs of others while located in Baton Rouge. Ernie ran a ministry helping young female runaways struggling with addiction, and Robyn filled her time by offering services to churches and working with a Christian radio station. After Robyn volunteered with Ernie’s mission, the two married and began to merge their volunteer and charity efforts together.

Motivated by their own faith and servants’ hearts, Ernie and Robyn began ER International in St. Petersburg, Florida to help homeless and runaway children living on the city’s streets. It was this initiative that led them to Free the Oppressed, a charity based out of Zambrano, Honduras. After a year of working with the charity, Ernie and Robyn took a leap of faith and moved to Zambrano themselves. Once in Honduras, they began working with Prince of Peace Children’s Home, a home for abandoned, and abused, or orphaned children. Their efforts led them to opening a Teenage Pregnancy Crisis Center and School, furthering their goal to help the world’s youth.

An eventual meeting with the First Lady of Honduras changed the direction of ER International, as well as Ernie and Robyn’s lives, forever. They were asked to take in a malnourished baby boy, and it was this precious infant that convinced the Breaux’s to stay in Honduras indefinitely. Their adopted son, Joey, was later diagnosed with PDD-NOS (a form of Autism), and the Breaux family began to dedicate their efforts to their son and other disabled children in Honduras. They moved to the island of Roatan, where they learned there were no services for Autistic children or those with other learning disabilities. Sad to see children like Joey being cast out for their imperfections, Ernie and Robyn began working with a local school to establish special needs programs for children with learning difficulties, with the eventual goal of opening a therapy center solely dedicated to children with Autism, and other learning dissibilities on the island.

ER International is also tied to the international humanitarian coalition Travel Adventure Group (TAG), as well as Honduran fundraising groups that employ former gang members in raising money for other Christian charities. ER International is able to continue their work on Roatan and throughout the world due to the generous donations and support of churches, businesses and individuals around the world. They are dedicated to continuing their efforts in Honduras and educating children with Autism, and other learning dissibilities.