There is an active youth council that meets on a weekly basis to address community concerns and provide youth in the community with opportunities–educationally, professionally, socially, emotionally, etc. Right now they are focusing on bi-monthly activities at the community center to create identity and unity with youth age kids in La Calle Real. As a
Even though the political situation in Nicaragua remains divisive, incidents of protesters clashing with police has diminished. Most of the flareups and violence has occurred in the inner city of Managua. Transportation has greatly improved as the blockades on the main highways and in the cities have been removed. There are hopes that the dialogue
Hello Fellow Ballplayers, We have a great opportunity to make a goodwill humanitarian baseball tour to Nicaragua in late January and early February, 2019. Trip will be approximately 10 days (an itinerary is at the bottom of this page). As many of you know, unlike the rest of Central America, baseball is the national pastime
Check out details for our upcoming Nicaragua trip here!
This is a group that meets weekly for 12 weeks. Class which covers subjects regarding how to start or grow a small business. The weekly topics for this course include: How do I start or improve my business? What do people want to buy? How do I by my product and set the sales price?
Program Updates: As of December 11, a new joint venture was started at the community center. The joint venture will be managed by Hermes Reyes. The project will consist of bringing pigs to market in Leon in the last six months. The pigs are bought at a wholesale price from local farmers and are resold
Direct from Juan Carlos in the community of La Calle Real The police carried out cleaning operations in several cities of Nicaragua, while other municipalities in the country carried out marches against and in favor of the government. The department of Granada remains in complete calm this weekend, some neighborhoods still maintain their barricades in
I wanted to update you on our recent travel to Nicaragua and the situation in LCR. As you probably already know, 24 of 26 volunteers canceled their trip to Nicaragua because of the unstable situation in Nicaragua. Denise and I were able to travel and, with some difficulty, we were able to finally get transportation
