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. [...]
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 [...]
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 new fence, veterinarian student scholarship
Our latest project at the Instituto José Dolores Estrada secondary school in Rincón de García is a strong perimeter fence to protect the vegetable gardens the students will be growing and tending. It is [...]
Nicaragua goes back to school Feb. 1
Students line up on the first day of the new school year to enter the secondary school at Rincon de Garcia, the Instituto Jose Dolores Estrada, greeted by the director of the South Villanueva [...]
La Caretta students receive mid-morning snacks
Children at the La Carreta elementary school enjoying the fruit of the season, oranges. This school has just started participating in our program of sending money monthly for the teachers to purchase local fruits [...]
El Platanal School Snack
The children of El Platanal School in the Villanueva Municipality are enjoying their first taste of cantaloupe as a mid-morning snack. Somos Ohana Nicaragua continues to provide money for the teachers to purchase local [...]
New bikes to incoming students
Sixteen incoming 7th graders to the secondary school at Rincon de Garcia received their new bikes recently. They and a parent signed an agreement to attend school and keep up their grades. Each new [...]
Beautification projects at Rincón school
Showing what the enthusiasm of the students and teachers can do at Instituto Jose Dolores Estrada in Rincón de Garcia, here are some photos of the exterior of the original wing, after re-painting and [...]
Renovations at Rincon de Garcia secondary school
On June 15, 2021, we sent the first payment for re-habilitating 3 classrooms of a secondary school in Rincon de Garcia. That school was built in 2008-09 with "sweat equity" from the parents, teachers, [...]