Fighting poverty and hunger in Nicaragua is an urgent task for everybody.  
Education and technical training is prioritary to help them to get better labor conditions
and a brighter future for their whole family.
Small business should be created for originating jobs.

Nicaragua is also a very poor country.
It has about 6 million inhabitants and it is the second poorest country in the whole  American continent
after Haiti. In 2011 Nicaragua was rated by the IMF the 132th country
according to the gross domestic product (PPP) per capita ($3,185; USA, $48,147).

The Guardabarranco (Turquoise-browed Motmot).
National Bird of Nicaragua.



  • 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.

  • 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 61.9% of the population
    lives on less than $2 per day. Almost 40% of 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.

  • More than 25% of Nicaraguans have insufficient food (the average in Latin America is at 10,2%). This
    means hunger and inappropriate development are rampant.

Casas de la Esperanza,
La Esperanza Housing & Development
(ACE)
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.
Casas de La Esperanza
ACE
              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. Illiteracy is growing up to 35%.

   
NICARAGUA

Casas de La Esperanza
ACE, February 2012
A COUNTRY OF ISLANDS AND VOLCANOS: O M E T E P E

A popular satirical drama created by natives resisting foreign colonization at the 16th century.
The meaning of the name is 'old, wise person' in Nahuatl.
The UNESCO declared this work “Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
           THE MOMBACHO                                          MASAYA'S VOLCANO    
Casas de La Esperanza provides homes, micro-loans, medical care, education, job creation, hope and
dignity to the slum dwellers of La Prusia, Nicaragua. This is our practical way to work for
eradicating extreme poverty and hunger (UN Millennium Development Goals # 1)
The IMF plan has frozen during many years the budget of the Ministry of
Education (just a 3% of the GDP). Schools are insufficient. The salary of the
teachers is extremely low.
The situation is very similar in the area of health.