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.
Special Needs Youth Camp held again
Our annual 2-day camp at a finca with a pool, donated by a generous rancher of Villanueva, provided a day of fun, including sports, arts and crafts, pool fun, and a yummy lunch for 2 groups of special needs youth of the area. Here, volunteers Caleb and [...]
Our lastest group of scholarship students
We are very proud of the good grades and community hours donated of our 13 university scholarship students. All are studying in fields of education or health professions. Nicaragua gives free university tuition to Nicaraguan high school graduated who pass entrance exams. We fund a stipend each [...]
New classroom finished at primary school
In 2026 spring we were able to continue the construction work on a new primary classroom for the elementary school Los Laureles II, started last year. The Villanueva Municipality and the Ministry of Education (MINED) celebrated the inauguration of the new classroom in June 2026. [...]
Water Tank helps whole community
Working with Amigos for Christ, we completed installing a new, metal water storage tank for the community of Mata de Caña. It replaces a plastic tank that ruptured due to time and sun damage. The tank, beside the primary school, is supplied water from the well whose [...]
Metal Water Tank Coming
Because the plastic water tank of the community of Mata de Caña ruptured in late 2025, the people have been pulling water directly from the well, which we were able to clean out and replace the pump for in 2025 April. This has meant requiring water to [...]
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 [...]