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Nicaragua Day Care Center & Preschool

Please become a part of the on-going support for this project.
If only 80 people pledge $100/year ($8.33/month), we can easily continue to fund this center.
If you like you can pledge in two payments each year,
I'll send you a biannual reminder letter with news from the center.
Just think about the number of children and young women in whose lives our love,
energy and dollars have made a positive difference during the past 19 years!

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The "Los Ositos" (Little Bears) Child Development Center
is now celebrating its
 20th Anniversary!!

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CDI kids on parade.
The Nicaragua Day Care Center and Preschool is one of Earthsteward Network's success stories. In 1987 a small group of Earthstewards visited Nicaragua bringing an initial $7,000 donation and helped to build the center.
The center currently:
  • Serves more than 50 children in the preschool and 20 in the day care
  • Employs as teachers and caregivers a number of young, single Nicaraguan women with no other means of support.
    Periodically, ESN delegations have:
  • Visited the center, bringing much needed supplies
  • Provided workshops for the parents, teachers and caregivers.
    Throughout the last 19 years, a small group of Earthstewards has generously supported the ongoing operation of the center. To the tune
    of approximately only $8,000 annually the ESN Nicaragua Fund:
  • Pays the teachers' salaries
  • Provides some food supplementation
  • Salaries for the staff
  • Scholarships for a dozen or so of the neediest families
  • Lunches for the daycare children
Currently there is only enough money in the account to continue our present level of assistant for only one more year. CDI Kids With Clown These children and teachers - many of whom live in cardboard shacks - depend upon us for assistance, encouragement and self-improvement. We can't let them down!

Please become a part of the on-going support for this project. If only 80 people pledge $100/year ($8.33/month), we can easily continue to fund this center. If you like you can pledge in two payments each year and I'll send you a biannual reminder letter with news from the center. Just think about the number of children and young women in whose lives our love, energy and dollars have made a positive difference for the past 19 years!

Your tax-deductible donations may be sent via a check made payable to: "ESN Nicaragua", and mailed to: ESN Nicaragua, c/o Juanita Ruth One, 3915 Staunton Avenue S.E., Charleston, WV 25304.

All monies go directly to the school. Fundraising expenses are an in-kind donation by Juanita.

Note: Juanita is planning to lead a 10-day trip to Nicaragua to visit the school, deliver clothes, shoes and books, and then visit other parts of Nicaragua. The trip is tentatively scheduled for March 28 - April 7, 2008. If interested, please contact Juanita at juanitaruthone@juno.com for more information.
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CDI kids with piñata.		 CDEkidswithtoys
CDI kids with toys.
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