Businesspeople in the Bible: Boaz and Lydia
Read how faith influenced the ways these two entrepreneurs managed their businesses.
July 23, 2025
Meet Darwin, a husband, father of three, and entrepreneur from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We recently sat down with Darwin to discuss his business journey and connection with Global de Empresarios en Pacto. (Global), a Honduran partner of Partners Worldwide. As a ministry of Darwin’s church, Global helped Darwin along every step of his business journey.
What is your business and how did it come to be?
Pollopolis (Chicken City) was founded in 2018, the result of many years of hard work. I previously had extensive experience in the food industry, including as franchisees, until the idea of wanting to become independent and work on our own arose.
At the beginning of 2017, my wife, my family, my three business partners, and I started creating the restaurant, and by 2018, we opened the first official location under the nationwide Pollopolis brand.
At Pollopolis, we buy, process, and prepare food products like fried and roasted chicken, as well as side dishes like potatoes, salads, yuca, and rice. Today, we currently have 14 locations in the south-central area of Honduras, and we're about to open another one in August, God willing.
What kind of impact have you made in your community through Pollopolis?
We've reached places like the southern part of the country, for example, where poverty is quite extreme, and we hire people who previously earned a very low monetary value in their previous jobs. One employee now earns four times what she earned in her previous job.
Additionally, we don't accept the policy that many companies in the country follow, which closes doors to [employing] families, to siblings, to children, parents and children. We've had a mother and two of her children working for us; we've had two brothers working, and so on. I think it's been very positive. We try to be as fair as possible.
I think the impact we've had on the community is very positive. We currently have more than 50 employees nationwide.
What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced?
The truth is that starting a business in our country isn't easy. Many businesses don't pay their employees their full salaries and undercut the prices of their final products, and that creates unfair competition. And the challenges of maintaining that quality, that consistency in our products, aren't easy, either.
How do you see God working in your business?
I believe God is the center of our business. We always entrust every business we have undertaken to God, and we know that without Him, we are nothing. We dedicate and have declared that these businesses are God's and that we are simply administrators.
How did Global equip you to start your business?
The support that Global provided—mentoring, leadership training, learning how to structure a business plan, and how to structure the management of a small business—has all proven very fundamental.
How has your business transformed your family’s daily life?
By starting our own business, by taking risks, we've overcome many challenges in our family, allowing ourselves to have a different quality of life.
What does the future of Pollopolis look like?
Our goals are always to continue serving the community and to grow responsibly, allowing us to generate jobs and satisfy demand.
