Somos Ohana Nicaragua started giving bikes to secondary students with long walking commutes to their schools in 2009, the year our first high school-building project was put in service, the Jos\u00e9 Dolores Estrada Institute at Rinc\u00f3n de Garc\u00eda. We worked with the head teacher and the parents of bike recipients to encourage a strong commitment to good attendance. Here are some results from that ongoing program.<\/p>\n
Wilber Javier Betanco<\/u> from Mayocunda got his bike in 2009 in order to ride to the new high school, and in 2015 he graduated from the National University with a licensure in Law.<\/p>\n
Holman Arnoldo Cadena<\/u> got his bike in 2009 and attended the Rinc\u00f3n high school, too, and this year he will graduate with a diploma of Auxiliary Nursing, the equivalent of an LPN degree. Holman’s sister Ingris Waleska Cardena<\/u> graduated from the high school at Rinc\u00f3n de Garc\u00eda in 2015 and has started classes at the UNAN (National Autonomous University of Nicaragua) at Somotillo, majoring in Education with a minor in Language and Literature.<\/p>\n
Edgar Efrain Aguilar<\/u> graduated in 2014 and now works as a health educator for the Ministry of Health (MinSa) in his home town area, the Municipality of Villanueva.<\/p>\n
What impact does having transportation to school make? What impact having a school where there was none? What ripples out from the local jobs for teachers? What future good will flow from the hearts and minds of these and other successful students?<\/p>\n
Maybe we will never know how far out the ripples will go, but we believe in planting the seeds that the youth of Nicaragua will nourish and develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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