PROJECTED HOUSES: 36, in 7 groups of 5 (plus the model house) HOUSES IN CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW: 36 Cost of materials for 1 houses NOW $1,800 HELP RECEIVED: 25 MICROCREDITS FOR 25 HOUSES $37,500 Thanks to the generous contribution of the companies from we have now funds for finishing this project |
| We thank Proyecto 0.25 la Caixa and and Caja Rioja , Fundación Caja Navarra, Desi, Larry and family, Jan, Carmen, Angel, Matías, Mercedes, María, Teresa M., Lola, Judit, Teresa G., Antonio, Bill, Oscar, family and friends, and many others, for their generous help. |
EH&D 1 Plot of 100,000 square feet to build 35 houses, plus one Model House for the community, and a School-Workshop. DONATION OF THE PROMOTERS OF EH&D |
| THE NEEDS |
| THANKS TO YOUR DONATIONS We have built a house for the "CUIDADORES" (i.e. the guard of the well)& his family in EH&D 2 |
| THANKS TO YOUR DONATIONS We are supplying water to the project and to LA PRUSIA when required BUDGET: Electric transformer for the pump $1,970 Submersible pump 7.5 HP, 2400 gallons / hour $5,250 Installation to the main pipe $840 Crane and manpower $1,940 TOTAL WATER SUPPLY COST: $10,000 |
| La Esperanza Housing & Development Casas de la Esperanza |
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. |
| SUBSIDIZED PROJECTS |
| THE MODEL HOUSE |
| SUBSIDIZED WITH DONATIONS OF FRIENDS OF EH&D. NOW IT IS THE SEWING & HANDICRAFT SCHOOL IT IS ALSO THE CLINIC OF LA PRUSIA |
| THE SCHOOL-WORKSHOP in EH&D 1 We thank MICROSOFT for being the sponsor of this BUILDING and Caja Navarra, for its help for tools, teachers and materials |
| BUDGET First phase: "Primary:" Installation of high tension wires from the posts, which are 900 feet from our plot, with additional concrete posts and the pruning of the whole itinerary. A transformer for providing electricity to the 36 houses and the School-workshop. Everything according to the requirements of the company UNION FENOSA. Manpower included & Second phase: "Secondary,"To bring the power from the transformer to the houses, in low tension, including the wiring, the concrete posts and manpower. TOTAL COST PAID OF THE ELECTRIC INSTALLATION: $18,000 |
| THANKS TO YOUR DONATIONS We have installed electricity for EH&D 1 |
| THANKS TO YOUR DONATIONS WE ARE ALMOST FINISHING THE HOUSING PROJECT OF EH&D 1 |
| EH&D HAS RECEIVED, AS DONATION OF THE PROMOTERS: A SECOND PLOT OF LAND OF 323,000 s.f. with A WELL |
| 1. THE PATH OF LA PRUSIA Engineers Without Borders of the University of Connecticut, have prepared the project for repairing the road: Layout of roadsides, water-drainages and reinforcement of the central part of the path. La Prusia needs $30,000 for this project |
| 2. WATER Ditch, digging, renovation of the distribution system and valves. La Prusia needs $12,000 for this project |
4. Construction of a new building with classrooms for the School-Workshop. Cost of the building, materials and manpower $25,000 Cost of machinery equipment and tools $12,000 Teaching staff for the Workshops $3,000 TOTAL $40,000 DONATION of the customers of "CAJA NAVARRA" $6,708.14 Thanks to the donation of CAJA RIOJA we will be able to finish this building |
5. Micro-credits for small business One Micro-credit of $5,000 per year. In 2008: Furnace and Workshop for ceramics $5,000. |
| THE VOLUNTEER'S HOUSE SPONSORED BY A MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE |
| 3. Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) & EH&D Partnership Thirteen graduate students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Professor in charge of the studio, Teddy Cruz have visited La Prusia, Granada, Nicaragua. They are working with Architecture students of the “Universidad Americana de Managua” to create in La Prusia a building and development plan for a new neighborhood housing development. The Parc Foundation will collaborate in a substantial way. EH&D is requesting $90,000 for the infrastructure of this Project. |
| PROJECTS |
EH&D1 Development Plan
Serving Eau Claire, WI and the Chippewa Valley Since 1881
UN Millennium Development Goals, #7: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020. |
| La Esperanza Housing & Development EH&D, April 2008 |
| 6. Scholarships for an University Degree EH&D wants to thank the donors of the scholarships for the people of La Prusia. Thanks to that, Francisca Norori will be a lawyer and Silvia Espinoza will have her diploma. But we want to thank in a very special manner our volunteer Connor O'Meara. He has founded the Connor O'Meara Scholarship that will use education to break the circle of poverty in La Prusia, Granada, Nicaragua. Please, help us and him to reach this goal. |
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A new beginning Memorial grad starts scholarship for the needy By Brad Bryan Leader-Telegram staff Thirty dollars - the cost of a pair of pants - would pay for a month of college for a student in Nicaragua. A 2003 Memorial High School graduate has founded a scholarship that he hopes will use education to break the circle of poverty in Central America's largest country. Connor O'Meara, who now lives in Minneapolis, returned from a two-month stint in the country where he helped build houses with a U.S.-based, nongovernmental agency called Association of Casas de la Esperanza, or Houses of Hope, in a squatter community near Granada. Just three weeks into his experience, he came to believe that education was the only way to help the indigent escape the stranglehold of their extreme poverty, and decided to start the scholarship. "It's not a new thing that no one's ever heard of, giving people money to go to school, but what I'm trying to do is do it on a bigger scale," O'Meara said. With help from the organization and others, O'Meara was able to find the first two scholarship recipients right away. By sponsoring the two, his tax-exempt foundation succeeded in nearly doubling the number of the slum residents who had been to college. Thanks to the scholarship, Santos Antonio Arias, 34, a farmer, can now study computation and engineering at the nearby Popular University of Nicaragua. Although outside the under-20 target range for the scholarship, Arias had already enrolled his first year, but he then ran out of money. The second student, Josefa Hernandez Urrutia, 47, will study law. She is currently a high school-educated elementary school teacher and a recently divorced mother of two teens. Not unlike other sponsorship programs, Scholarship for Granada will pair individual donors with students. They will send e-mails to keep sponsors informed of their progress and are required to keep grades up. "It kind of makes a connection," O'Meara Please, visit: www.scholarshipforgranada.com |
| Connor O'Meara and friends, from left, Ronaldo, Juan Carlos and Conny played playful for the camera in the squatter community near Granada, Nicaragua, where the children live. After volunteering to build houses there, O'Meara started a scholarship that may help the three, and others from the area, get a college education. |
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