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Hygiene barrel
Light On The RoadLuz En El CaminoPack hope for Honduras
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How many can we send together?
Start with a suggested gift or mix any number of shipments. The $315 hygiene-barrel and $344 aid-box figures cover the container and shipping; donated items fill them. A food barrel is approximately $1,020 total: about $800 of food plus $220 shipping.
What goes inside?
Small essentials. Serious usefulness.
The most useful contents are practical, durable, and easy to distribute. These examples come from Rosa’s current requests and recent packing photographs.
Hygiene & baby care
Especially useful in a hygiene barrel
- Bar soap
- Toothpaste
- Toothbrushes
- Combs
- Disposable razors
- Travel-size shampoo
- Diapers
- Baby wipes
- Washcloths
- Socks
School & household aid
Well suited to sturdy aid boxes
- Backpacks
- Notebooks
- Folders
- Pens and pencils
- Crayons
- Glue
- Scissors
- Clothing
- Blankets
- Reusable bottles
Food staples
Examples seen in recent barrel packing
- Rice
- Beans
- Canned foods
- Pasta
- Flour and cornmeal
- Cooking oil
- Peanut butter
- Coffee
- Crackers
- Dry staples
How we estimate reach
The numbers have a clear source.
25 families for one week is Light On The Road’s direct working estimate for one food barrel containing about $800 in food, plus $220 shipping. The calculator converts that to an estimated 95 people using Honduras’s national average of 3.8 people per household.
The household average comes from the Honduras National Institute of Statistics (INE), June 2024 household survey. It is a planning estimate—not a promise that every household has the same size.
Read the official INE household report →Prefer to give items?