This project provides a medical home for 1,500 high-risk pregnant women and 4,000 children in Nicaragua for 18,000 patient visits annually.

Help children in rural Nicaraguan communities receive the opportunity to earn an education and realize their basic human rights.

This project will help 200 needy and orphan children in Vera Cruz, Nicaragua enroll and remain in the Verbo K-12 school by paying for textbooks, uniforms, supplies, and livable salaries for teachers.

This project introduces the practice of utilizing teens from developing nations in a reverse cross culture training experience to enhance cultural understanding in U.S. teens.

Surgeons of Hope Foundation sends volunteer medical teams on life-saving missions to provide heart surgery for the children of Nicaragua and Haiti. Surgical procedures that are commonplace in the developed world are out of reach to poor countries. Surgeons of Hope Foundation is closing that gap by providing surgery to children, training and equipping the local medical team, and constructing a new, modern pediatric cardiac center on site.

We use soccer, the world's most popular team sport, as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of 80 girls, ages 7-19 in Granada, Nicaragua. A team can be the most powerful change agent in a young girl's development, proven to inspire healthy choices regarding drugs, sex, alcohol, academics, and nutrition. This project provides soccer, team-building, life-skills, culture exchange, and civic engagement activities that support girls to make the healthy choices needed to achieve their goals.

Many children in Nicaragua have died due to malnutrition, unsanitary conditions, and lack of medical supplies to treat them in the infantile hospital "Manuel de Jesus Rivera" (La Mascota). This project will help equip and condition up to 2 hospital rooms in the area of Oncology (cancer) with new hospital beds and mattresses, manometers, nebulizers, wheel chairs, and other medical equipment, in order to better treat the patients.

Funds raised will support CO2 Bambu in building a shelter for battered women in rural Nicaragua (see attached details). CO2 is a construction firm committed to revolutionizing Central America's housing landscape through the use of sustainable, affordable bamboo. A small portion of funds will be given to Agora Partnerships, CO2's 501c3 partner, who works with the most promising entrepreneurs in Central America, offering advisory services and access to financial, human, and social capital.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. 16% of their population lives on less than $1.25 a day. By providing training and financial support for the two most promising enterprises- agriculture and tourism- impoverished populations can help themselves and their communities.

More than 1,000 poor children await heart surgery in Managua, Nicaragua. More are diagnosed each day. This project will obtain sodium nitroprusside, essential to controlling blood pressure following heart repairs. Post-operative hypertension may be a life-threatening development for a young child. An urgent call from the Health Ministry informed us that they have run out of this medicine at our project hospital, La Mascota Children's Hospital. We need to help by sending 50 vials.