When I heard about University of Pennsylvania bringing “Technology-Based Learning to Nicaraguan Community School for Children of Coffee-Farm Workers”, I couldn’t help but cringe and feel sympathy for the small community that is about to be a subject in a research project.
There is a misguided, well-intentioned belief in the Western world that whatever is good [...]

In March 2007 my church team organized an eye glasses clinic at Verbo church in Bluefields, Nicaragua. On the days I helped with the clinic, I chatted with locals as I adjusted their new glasses to fit them. I remember meeting a man who was needing glasses and sunglasses because he spent a lot of [...]

Children at Verbo school plant seeds in
the green house during Cornerstone’s
mission to Bluefields in March 2008.
Children’s education is a major focus on Nicaragua Hope. Given our relationship with Verbo in Bluefields, we are constantly looking for ways to help them so kids and their families can break out of the cycle of generational poverty.
Another major [...]

The aid agency Adventist Development and Relief Agency (or ADRA) has blessed the rural municipality of Mozonte with a new sanitation and latrine system. This new facility will benefit nine communities in the region totaling almost 2,000 people.
In rural Nicaragua, well water is remote with many people having to walk a long way to get [...]