OLR Documentary Film Blog

In December 2012, a documentary film crew led by Director Brad Coley began filming at an all-girls orphanage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Our Little Roses Ministries houses, feeds and educates more than 60 girls at a time, creating a model exception within its 10-foot walls against the backdrop of extreme poverty, violence and lawlessness surrounding the home - "a children's holocaust," a local priest says.

Drawn by a girl who lives at Our Little Roses

San Pedro Sula is a broken promise. Everyday, the metropolitan bus terminal fills with new faces of campesinos who have left tight-knit, barter-and-trade communities to find work in the nation's bustling industrial capital. But here, even low-paying jobs are hard to come by. Empty church pews suggest a breakdown in religious faith. Gangs are community. The harshest sign of that undelivered promise: a city churning with abandoned children - most of them girls.

And that's usually how girls find their way into Our Little Roses.

Each girl who comes through Our Little Roses must confront the same paradox: she must lose everything to get here. But once here, she stands to gain far more than she, or her parents, ever had. Read more...