• Nicaragua is a very beautiful country, with many
    beaches, lakes, islands and  volcanoes, with
    mountains covered by  tropical forests.

  • It is a country of pretty cities with buildings preserved
    from the colonial time, like Granada and León.

  • There are notable geographic differences between
    the two coasts, the Atlantic and the Pacific.

  • It also has great urban agglomerations like Managua
    and  rural areas with difficult access.

  • It is a country of nice, friendly people.

  • A country with natural protected areas with more than
    700 kinds of birds.

  • A country that is becoming a tourists' paradise.
La Esperanza
Housing &  Development
EH&D, April 2008
To help the families of La Prusia to fight poverty is the main objective of
La Esperanza Housing & Development / Casas de la Esperanza
Flag & Badge of Nicaragua
NICARAGUA
The Guardabarranco,
the national bird of Nicaragua
  • Nicaragua is also a very poor country. It has over 5 million inhabitants and it is the second poorest country in the whole  
    American continent after Haiti. Nicaragua is rated the 124th country according to the gross domestic product (PPP) per capita
    (in 2006, $3.770, while the USA has $43.236).

  • Nicaragua has a particularly harsh recent history, with dictatorships, revolutions, multiple foreign interventions, civil wars and
    natural catastrophes. It also suffers unbearable social and economic differences.

  • Nicaragua lacks all types of resources. The pressure of external debt and the priorities of political economy often imposed from
    outside hardly permit the country to develop. Around 79% of the population lives on less than $2 per day. Almost half the
    population lives below the poverty line, $1 per day .

  • A large number of Nicaraguans suffer economically,  have no regular jobs and they live in houses built with cast-off materials  
    on land that is not their own. The present housing deficit is estimated to be around 500,000 units.

  • About 27% of Nicaraguans have insufficient food (the average in Latin America is at 10,2%). This means hunger and
    inappropriate development are rampant.

  • Money for education is very limited. There is a notable disadvantage in the education field in comparison with the average of
    Latin American countries. Just 80% of Nicaraguan children go to primary school, and only 41% go through to secondary school.
    The IMF plan for Nicaragua has frozen the budget of the Ministry of Education (just a 3% of the GDP) at the level of the year 2000
    at least until 2008. The situation is very similar in the area of health.

  • Fighting poverty in Nicaragua is an urgent task for everybody. Living conditions of this people need to be improved, there is
    extreme poverty and hunger that could be eradicated. Education and technical training for adults is very important to help them
    to get better labor conditions and a brighter future for their whole family.

La Esperanza
Housing & Development
Casas de la Esperanza (EH&D)
is a non denominational, non political
NGO, tax exempt: 501 (c) (3).   
It develops housing and provides technical
education to families who are currently
squatters, living on the outskirts of
Granada, Nicaragua
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