What we have been up to...

The past three weeks we have spent in Granada, Nicaragua visiting different programs and schools for children.  It has truly been an eye opening experience.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country, next to Haiti, in our hemisphere.  Poverty is very evident in day to day life, whether you are in the city or in the country side.  Major issues that we have seen, which is caused by the extreme poverty, are malnutrition, drugs (mainly children ranging in age from 10 to 18 who are addicted to sniffing shoe glue), and lack of education.

We can get into all of these issues later.

After visiting a few schools and nutritional programs, we have decided the best impact we can have with limited resources is to educate.
We plan to go about this by delivering "DandY packages" to all of these programs.

What's included in the package: toothbrush, toothpaste, and hand soap.

Pretty simple!  We are planning on delivering the packages this week and will be giving short lessons to each class that we visit on proper brushing and hand washing techniques.

So stay tuned and thanks again for the donation money that is making this all happen!

Paz,
DOM