With summer just around the corner, warm evenings outside are often interrupted by the buzz of unwanted guests; mosquitoes, along with their partners in crime, ticks and fleas, are familiar foes in the U.S. Here, West Nile and Lyme Disease exist, but afflict few compared to the density of parasite-related afflictions in Central America. Near [...]
Leer este artículo en Español September 9th, 2008, Moisés’ mother made her first call to the doctors, which was surely a lifesaving decision for her child who was diagnosed at birth with extremely severe malnutrition and hydrocephalus. Her call was the first step on a miraculous road of healing, thanks to the excellent care of [...]
Leer este artículo en Español. Rainbow Network began its partnership with El Crucero in 2002, and from the start the staff has been able to count on the help of a very special person in the community of Los Fierros. Her name is Rosa Emilia Gaitán- widow, mother of nine, grandmother of more than 30, [...]
Since 2010, Rainbow Network and NICASALUD, a health organization based in Nicaragua, have partnered in health-related projects in rural communities around Ciudad Sandino, El Crucero, Nagarote, and La Paz Centro. In total, the organizations have coordinated 11 events: 6 in Ciudad Sandino, 3 in El Crucero, and one each in Nagarote and La Paz Centro. [...]
Desde el año 2,010 Rainbow Network – Red Arco Iris y la federación NICASALUD, vienen coordinando un trabajo de alianza en temas de salud en las comunidades rurales de los municipios de Ciudad Sandino, El Crucero, Nagarote y La Paz Centro.- En total se han llevado a cabo 11 eventos: 6 en Ciudad Sandino, 3 [...]
I have some very exciting news. A number of us at The Rainbow Network are creating a new Medical Capacity Fund to help provide needed care to people living in poverty in rural Nicaragua. For the past nine years I have travelled to rural Nicaragua and worked alongside Rainbow Network’s dedicated physicians in dirt-floored shacks [...]
I hope everyone who reads our blog regularly and those of you who’ve just stumbled onto us will take a couple of minutes to watch this new video produced by Rainbow Network Partner, Chase Heilman. The video is wonderful, the images beautiful, and the message is right on target with what we at Rainbow Network [...]
Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. As part of our mission to end poverty and to save and change lives in Nicaragua Rainbow Network partners with other organizations to bring safe, clean drinking water to impoverished communities. Water [...]
It was with a very real excitement that Nelson Palacios, Rainbow’s Nicaraguan Director, was able to report at the recent meeting of the Board of Directors that Rainbow Network has cut the average rate of malnutrition in the communities we serve to 8%! This is a dramatic decrease in the number of children unable to [...]
Toilets may not be polite conversation, but they are absolutely essential to public health. Below you can test your latrine IQ with some facts provided by The World Toilet Organization.
