One thing we commonly hear when someone visits us in Nicaragua is how they never understood how much we are doing in Nicaragua. It is honestly hard to truly understand until you are sitting in a truck or van for hours day-after-day traveling to different areas of our work and seeing a small percentage of our partner communities.
In a nutshell, here is a glimpse of our work in numbers:
| Staff | |
|---|---|
| US Team Members | 4 |
| Nicaraguan Team Members | 43 |
| General | |
| Countries | 1 |
| Communities | 177 |
| Networks (Regions of Nicaragua) | 9 |
| Municipalities | 19 |
| Total # of Partners | 58,994 |
| Healthcare | |
| General Patients (per month) | 1,187 |
| Dental Patients (per month) | 161 |
| Nutrition Centers | 507 |
| Meals Served (per month) | 239,470 |
| Healthcare Volunteers | 504 |
| Education | |
| School Groups | 507 |
| Primary Students | 10,484 |
| High School Students (currently) | 1,177 |
| Technical Students (currently) | 409 |
| Education Volunteers | 1,222 |
| Economic Development | |
| Participants (currently) | 324 |
| Housing | |
| Houses Built | 1,326 |
If it is still hard to wrap your mind around our footprint in Nicaragua, I invite you to join me in Nicaragua next year. Go and see for yourself how your dollars are being used and how our holistic approach to material poverty is changing lives throughout rural communities. Email us at info@rainbownetwork.org if you would like more information.
Megan Herrera