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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