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Nicaragua Day Care Center & Preschool

Los Ositos Child Development Center

"The Nicaraguan Government has agreed to provide the funding for the expenses that have been provided by this Earthstewards project in the past. We have, as a result, closed our fundraising efforts. We are very grateful to the donors who have maintained this preschool for so many years for some of the neediest children in the Western Hemisphere. It is heartwarming to know that the work goes on thanks to your efforts."


Los Ositos School
Los Ositos Child Development Center.
The Los Ositos Child Development Center 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 around 90 children between three and six years old in preschool and a dozen or so infants and toddlers in all-day care
  • Employs as teachers and caregivers a number of 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.

    For more than two decades, a small group of Earthstewards has generously supported the ongoing operation of the center.
    In the past, to the tune of approximately only $6,000 annually, the ESN Nicaragua Fund:
  • Paid the teachers' and staffs' salaries
  • Provided some food supplementation
  • Scholarships for a dozen or so of the neediest families
  • Lunches for the daycare children

Kids at Los Ositos

Kids at Los Ositos
 Kids at Los Ositos
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