The Leadership Center
learn. grow. lead.
life on campus
At The Leadership Center, students experience a two-year journey of academic excellence, hands-on learning, and personal growth in a supportive community.
LMI’s Leadership Center is located in rural Comayagua, Honduras, within a vast national forest region. Surrounded by natural beauty and set apart from the distractions of daily life, the campus provides a safe, focused environment where young women can learn, grow, and prepare for leadership.
campus sustainability
Students gain hands-on experience through gardening, agriculture, livestock care, and environmental stewardship while helping support a more self-sustaining campus.
Sustainability Efforts Include:
Organic gardens & greenhouses
Coffee & food production
Livestock care
Water conservation
Composting & sustainable farming
Through these experiences, students learn leadership, responsibility, and practical skills they can bring back to their communities.
Short-term volunteer and mission teams stay in dormitory rooms with single-beds and bunk beds. Showers and toilets are clean, but not always in the same building. Depending on the time of the day, showers can be cold as the water is heated by the sun.
Long-term teaching staff and volunteers live in the Staff House. While staff frequently have private bedrooms, staffing needs occasionally require individuals of the same gender to share a bedroom. The Staff House has a common living area and shared indoor bathroom and shower.
Housing
At the Leadership Center, food is part of both daily care and student learning. Meals are simple and nutritious, including staples such as beans, rice, tortillas, eggs, soup, fruits and vegetables, with occasional chicken, beef, or fish. Students also have access to coffee, tea, and purified water.
LMI’s campus includes four large vegetable gardens, and food grown on campus is used to help nourish students and staff. The land is not only a source of food; it is a living classroom.
Through hands-on work in the gardens and farm, students learn about sustainable agriculture, nutrition, soil health, and responsible stewardship. Composting and other regenerative practices help restore the soil while giving students practical tools they can apply in their families and communities.
Meals
We have partnerships with several schools, churches, businesses, and religious organizations throughout the United States who regularly send teams to LMI’s Honduras Leadership Center campus to serve, volunteer, learn from our students and staff, and partner with us in a variety of ways. We liked to think of these as mutually transformative learning opportunities. Team members serve in a variety of ways including construction or building projects, farming and agriculture, or teaching seminars and tutoring. We practice hospitality and welcome volunteers on campus from any background, race, gender, religion, or faith. The videos below are messages from some of the leaders of these organizations regarding their experience at The Leadership Center.