Updates
Newsletter #4 - April 2010
Every year La Escuelita is visited by two health delegations - one to do physical exams and the other to do dental exams on the children. This year there were more students to examine but it all went very well.
La Escuelita has become well known in the neighborhood and more children came to register for the school at the beginning of the academic year, which starts in February in Nicaragua. There are now 150 children registered - up from the usual 100 in the past. The parents say it is because of the food program, the health and dental care and the kindness and interest that the teachers show their children.
The delegation of dental hygienists from Penn College of Technology, the Canadian dentist and his wife, and our own Nicaragua dentist worked under difficult circumstances given that every day there was an electrical blackout for half the day. However, many children were seen even with the difficulties. The children, parents and teachers really enjoyed the Dental Health Fair that was held on Sunday before the examinations started The student hygienists had lots of good information for the parents and children and the teachers learn so much and reinforce the information during the year.
The delegation of nurses from Yale were wonderful. We found the children to be healthier this year than in the past. The nurses did an amazing amount of fundraising so that they were able to leave medicines for follow up care. We are now working with a Nicaraguan health organization and trying to ensure really good follow up to the one week of examinations for those children with health conditions that need to be monitored.
The teachers continue their own on-going education to better their ability to each the children. The head teacher, Alicia, has graduated and is now taking a computer course and is getting her credential in education. We are very proud of her! The other teachers continue their studies and will be graduating this coming year.
We thank all of our donors because our financial support makes it possible for us to take in more children who can really benefit from what this school has to offer - a hot lunch, health and dental care, a library and reading program and more.
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La Escuelita is under the 501c3 of CEPAD*USA, a US organization that
works for the poor of Nicaragua and is connected to CEPAD Nicaragua, a Nicaraguan development organization of protestant churches.
To donate to La Escuelita, make checks out to CEPAD*USA
earmarked for La Escuelita and send to:
5605 Groomsbridge Court
Raleigh, NC 27612
Tel: 919-783-6478
All contributions are deductible for U.S. I.R.S purposes.
La Escuelita
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whom and where the formal notification of your
honorarium or memorial gift should be sent.
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