Welcome
Somos Ohana Nicaragua is an all volunteer organization called to cooperate with groups or individuals seeking to improve their lives, especially those who are marginalized by socio-economic, political, cultural, or enviornmental conditions.
What We Do
The community of Villanueva, in the northwestern part of Nicaragua, receives us each year as partners. We work with the local teachers, nurses, doctors, farmers, parents of children with special needs, to address a few of the many urgent needs they face each day.
Finally, water flows from well at Mata de Caña
Somos Ohana Nicaragua bought the new pump and paid for the labor needed to resolve the problem of no water in Mata de Caña and at the primary school in the community. The community members, teachers and students had suffered for over a year with no running [...]
Donations delivered to Casa Materna
During the visit of the Somos Ohana Nicaragua team to Villnueva in July, 2024, many donations of home-crafted baby receiving blankets, wooden toys and personal care items were delivered to the center where women near their time to give birth can stay free and have good medical [...]
Teachers and parents in 5 primary schools enable nutritional supplement
These students at Enmanuel Mongalo Primary school in El Platanal hold up the fruit supplement we supply weekly to pre-school through 3rd grade for 5 primary schools in the Municipality of Villanueva. Our wonderful retired RN Doña Tala handles the money, distributed to teachers who buy the [...]
Mata de Caña school gets new fence
As the final step in our renovation of the rural Mata de Caña primary school, Somos Ohana Nicaragua is providing requested fencing to protect the school and the vegetables that the students are growing there from wandering animals. We have completed the new cafeteria roof, a working [...]
Great progress on school renovation!
The primary school at Mata de Caña is getting outside electrification, a partial new roof, screens, cleaned and painted window hardware and walls, a sidewalk, and working boys and girls latrines. The new, larger water tank was supplied by the government when our engineer began working on [...]
Sewing classes continue after summer workshop
Women who were in Adrianna Flavin's sewing classes during Somos Ohana Nicaragua's trip to Villanueva in July are continuing to hone their skills on the donated sewing machines which are now at the Instituto A.C.Sandino in La Carreta. They learned well how to make their own patterns [...]
Sewing machines and lessons focus of Summer 2022 trip
During this summer's visit of the Somos Ohana volunteers to Villanueva, Adrianna Flavin taught sewing skills for 2 weeks to 20 women, using 3 donated electric machines that the team took down this year. Other projects completed were a day camp for 2 groups of special needs [...]
Team Returns After Summer Trip
The Somos Ohana Volunteers returned in August from their 2022 visit to Villanueva. One of their projects is the annual luncheon for cancer patients. These folks receive a grant to cover transportation from Villanueva to various urban cancer treatment centers.
Festivities in Rincón de García
High school director Álvaro Francisco Mondragón Maldonado and a number of the students at Instituto Jose Dolores Estrada in Rincón de García celebrate cutting the ribbon and inaugurating their new perimeter fence which the school community had requested. Workers contracted by Somos Ohana Nicaragua recently completed the [...]
