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Our 2021 project is complete, and it was a great success!! Thanks to a LOT of hard work by our Project Coordinator Maverick Velasquez, along with our school district liaison Crispin Canales, Maverick's wife Marta and her family, and two dedicated veterinarians, we provided assistance to four rural communities! AND we were able to furnish the school district with a small grant to assist with the renovation of a small building to add office space to their cramped headquarters! Thanks also to our many generous supporters!!
https://vecinosofleon.com/2021/02/24/2021-project-successful/
Please go to our webpage for the story and lots of pictures!

2021 project successful! Kindergarten students at the tiny school in Agua Fria, a remote community near the Telica volcano, hold up notebooks provided by Vecinos of Leon. Looking out the door is Maverick, the coordinator o…

What a crazy year. We cancelled our scheduled trip for 2020 just days before we planned to travel, as borders were closing around the world. But our volunteers in Nicaragua thought we could still serve the communities. We waited to see if schools would be closed, and when we learned they would not, a handful of Nicaraguan volunteers did the work usually done by a crew of as many as 14. This by the way, was the second year in a row they had to do that. The 2019 trip was disrupted by political violence that prevent the American volunteers from making the trip. Our Nicaraguan volunteers are heroic. About six weeks ago, they delivered school supplies to five rural schools, new wooden chairs to one of the schools, brought veterinary support to two of the communities, and got repairs done on playground equipment, too.

This post is horribly overdue; COVID-19 has had me scrambling madly to address crises as a PhD student and as a teacher, but the summer quarter just ended for me, so I am getting caught up. Read more here:

2020 project a success despite COVID Nicaragua, Leon, Vecinos, Vecinos of Leon,

Hello, long time no post. The website is updated at www.vecinosofleon.com. I have included an update on the political situation in NIcaragua. The short version is: There is a great deal of political unrest in the country right now, including a significant amount of violence. Many large NGOs have temporarily withdrawn from the country until it stabilizes somewhat, because the country is not as safe as usual, and also because there is enough upheaval to make carrying out educational work pretty difficult. Many stores, schools, and roads are closed, for example. When the Peace Corps returns, we will take it as evidence that the country is stable enough to work in, and we will return, too. We will hold fundraisers as if we are going next March/April, but if we can't go this spring as planned, we will donate part of the funds to a non-profit that is still operating in the country and save the rest until we can return.

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