Education
There are few schools in Ciudad Sandino. In those that exist
there are no books, they run three shifts a day, and are crowded with 40 - 60
children in a class. Even under those awful conditions, for a long time many
children have not been able to attend for lack of $2.00 a month for tuition,
$20.00 for a school uniform, and textbook money. There are 60-70,000 school age
children living in Ciudad Sandino, while about 15,000 are able to attend school. As a result of the privatization of the
schools, only 67.5% Nicaraguans over the age of 15 can read and write (World
Fact Book 2/2007)
What have we done in the past?
- Provided
English classes free-of-charge for two years
- Built
and equipped a school for the Las Parcelas community and hired a teacher
for two years
- Provided
students with funding to go to school through individuals donors
- Organized
sister preschool relationships with five schools
- Organized
a sister church relationship with a church in Nueva Vida that has a
feeding center and preschool
- Provided
a teacher for the middle school at the coffee cooperative, El Porvenir
The last four we are still doing. The CDCA currently provides outreach and education and mobilizes
resources by:
- Conducting
two speaking tours in the U.S. each year since 1995
- Promoting
arts and crafts from Nicaraguan artists for sale in the U.S. during
speaking tours
- Hosting
over 750 visits by groups from other organizations, over 100
delegations and close to 500 individual international volunteers at our
International Training Facility
- Creating and distributing a quarterly newsletter to
approximately 11,000 supporters
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