First donation handover

 Dear donors,

In the past few days we have been able to hand over the first donations to the project manager of the Paraíso de Infancia Los Gusanitos project, Priska Buchmann Scherer. Verena, who took over the handover for us, was able to talk to Priska and brought us news and pictures from the project: at the moment there are 90 children in the project.  The smaller children spend the whole day in the Kinderparadies, the school-age children spend the time outside their school time in the project. They wash their uniform after their school visit, then eat lunch, do their homework and then take tuition or further education. The big kids come to the project before they go to school. They also receive lunch in the project and go to school in the afternoon. 

The requests have increased in the recently difficult times, but the capacity of the Gusanitos with this number of children are exhausted. When children leave the project, other families are given the opportunity to take addvantage of the facility of the project. 

 As already described in the need, the donations cover the basic needs of the children. This includes daily meals, extra education, school supplies, medical and psychological care, and space for free development as well as extra activities. 

In the past year, Priska was able to use donations to acquire laptops, which the children can use for their school assignments and further education. Every year Priska creates the textbooks for every child, as there are no teaching materials at the public schools. To save money, a freezer was purchased, through which larger amounts of food can be purchased. Due to the political crisis, there are only a few hours of running water every day. Therefore water is upstream with large water tanks. The project also tries to provide itself as far as possible. It has a garden with vegetables, fruit trees and chickens. The products can be used to make drinks and food. In the project, 16 Nicaraguan permanent employees work with a total of 10.5 percentage points. 

For the future, Priska plans to make it possible for the children to stay in the project after their graduation of school. At the moment most children are forced to support their families through work after completing basic education. She wants to enable children to attend secondary schools. Therefore, she plans to set up a workshop where children can make bedside lamps to be sold in Nicaragua or Europe. The proceeds are intended to help children continue their education after schooling. 
Continue supporting the project through your donation and help the children to gain better education and give them a place to be a child.