Monthly Archives: August 2024

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 care by nurses and midwives.

The Nicaraguan government’s Ministry of Health supports these centers throughout the country. Because of recent decades of much better maternal and newborn health care, the incidence of children with handicaps has significantly decreased.

Shown in the photo are (end left) Directing RN Antonia, 3 women in residence waiting to give birth there, (end right) Center’s head nurse Ilda, and (back row) the Somos Ohana team.

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 fruit weekly, who then enlist the help of parents. The fruit varies, and if it’s to be served in bowls, parents help prepare it at the schools.