Nica HOPE opened its doors to the community of the Managua City trash dump in February of 2008,
receiving a flood of students seeking to expand their minds, skills, and opportunities for the future. With children working in the trash to make little more than $2 a day, Nica HOPE programs aim to provide education and job opportunities apart from the trash for these youth.
WHAT'S NEW:
How to Get Involved This Holiday Season
Nov 11 2009
Buy Nica HOPE Jewelry and Ornaments as Gifts:
Visit our online store to buy jewelry and ornaments... Read more
New Holiday Ornaments
Nov 9 2009
Nica HOPE jewelry students have created 3 new ornament styles just in time to celebrate the holidays! Each piece is... Read more
CURRENTLY AT NICA HOPE:
Austin Samaritans
Funding partner
Austin Samaritans funds the running costs for the Nica HOPE Fabretto feeding program in the Acahualinca public primary school. Austin Samaritans supports several projects that serve the community of La Chureca, helping to build coordination among the various efforts.
To learn more, check out:
Open Hearts Children's Relief Mission
Colegio Cristiana Esperanza School
Open Hearts Children's Relief Mission operates the primary school located inside La Chureca, providing a basic education to over 350 students. Nica HOPE and Open Hearts work together in a variety of ways, in order to bring the greatest opportunities to the children of La Chureca. Nica HOPE directly offers computer classes, jewelry-making classes, and other vocational training to students from the Esperanza school. In fact, Nica HOPE's jewelry program was started as a collaborative effort between Open Hearts and Nica HOPE, in order to provide alternative
Dos Generaciones
Down The Road
Documentary Film Project
Down The Road's mission is to create a documentary that captures the beauty and tragedy of Central America, and in turn helps all Americans understand one another better. We aim to share the stories of the people and places we encountered as well as our own story. Through the viewing of our film, we seek to challenge this American generation to rethink its ideas of normalcy. The film's intent is to educate through exposure, entertain through adventure, and inspire through living purposeful lives with an outward focus.
Visit Down The Road at www.downtheroadproject.com!
Love, Light, and Melody
Love, Light, and Melody and Nica HOPE have been working in friendly collaboration since they were both launched in 2007. Love, Light, and Melody continues to point potential volunteers and supporters to Nica HOPE projects in Nicaragua.
Mustard Seed Communities
Mustard Seed Communities is a non-profit 501-3(c), community development organization that began in 1978 Kingston, Jamaica. Hogar Belen in Managua, Nicaragua opened its door in 2000 to care for abandoned handicap children. In 2004 Mustard Seed Communities felt a calling to minister to the people of La Chureca and the Christ in the Garbage Ministry was formed. A feeding program was initiated to address the immediate needs of the families living in La Chureca. Later in 2006 a sewing center, Centro de Costura, opened to teach women from the dump a trade that could give them a chance for a brighter future.
http://www.mustardseed.com/locations/christ_in_garbage.html
Juntos Contigo
Juntos Contigo is an after-school reinforcement program located in La Chureca that sends students who have graduated from their intro computer class to Nica HOPE's more advanced classes.