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.
Less than 50% of all Nicaraguan children go to elementary school. On average it takes a student 10 years to complete elementary school; and then only 40% of those who go to high school graduate. Lack of formal education is one of the main reasons that nearly one-third of the country is illiterate and nearly 70% of Nicaraguans are either unemployed or underemployed. There are more than 1,000 children in Vera Cruz, Nicaragua that do not attend school.
Funding will enable the Verbo School to hire and retain more highly-qualified teachers, make necessary infrastructure and classroom improvements, and subsidize the tuition for additional children from the local community.
Having a primary and secondary education gives impoverished children a significantly better chance of getting a job, learning a trade or going to college and breaking the cycle of poverty into which they were born.
In many ways I am where I am today because I had the opportunity that many Nicaraguan children don't - I received an education thanks to the Verbo School in Vera Cruz.
- Rojare Orozco, Former Verbo student, ODU graduate
Total Funding Received to Date: $22,183
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $816
Total Funding Goal: $23,000
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