FINISHED HOUSES: 36, in 7 groups of 5 (plus the model house)
Cost of materials for 1 houses
   NOW $2,500

HELP RECEIVED:   25 MICROCREDITS FOR 25 HOUSES   $37,500

Thanks to the generous contribution of the companies from PROYECTO BIEN

we have had funds for finishing the houses of  this project .

Thanks to the donation of CAJA RIOJA we could finish the common areas      
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., Rafa, Lola, Judit, Teresa G., Antonio, Emilio, Eleanor and Miles,
Erik, Bill, María Luisa and John, 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 EH&D1, 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.
admin@casas-de-la-esperanza.org
SUBSIDIZED PROJECTS
THE MODEL HOUSE
SUBSIDIZED WITH DONATIONS OF FRIENDS OF EH&D.

NOW IT IS 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 HAVE FINISHED 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

DONATION of the UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID                                                       
(Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Institucionales y Cooperación):                                25,500 €

5. Micro-credits for small business
One Micro-credit of $5,000 per year.

In 2009: 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
visited La Prusia, Granada, Nicaragua.
Beside the publication of their study, the Teddy Cruz's Studio in San Diego is designing
a new neighborhood housing development in La Prusia.
The Parc Foundation is collaborating in a substantial way.
EH&D is requesting $90,000 for the infrastructure of this Project.
PROJECTS
EH&D1 Development Plan
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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, November 2009
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.




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.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Recent substantial donations to EH&D:


1. The Parc Foundation has donated $60.000 for starting small companies that may create jobs for La
Prusia. Two mini-excavators CASE have been bought. Thanks to Oscar and Arantxa the Empresa de
Servicios La Prusia is already providing jobs to the families of the quarter.

2.
CajaEspaña has given 14.000 € for a nutrition project focused on the scholars at the La Inmaculada
School and on the smaller kids, in order to improve their food.

3
. The Universidad Complutense, Madrid, through the Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Institucionales y
Cooperación has approved 25.500 € for helping us to enlarge the School-workshop in rder to provide
technical training to the young men and women of La Prusia.

4.The
Fundación Caja Navarra is also helping us to buy equipment for the new activities at the School-
workshop.

5.The engeneering Company
ABB has given us 35.000 € for the infrastructure of potable water, raining
water and black waters of the new building project ACE 2.

In the name of La Prusia's neighbours, heartly thanks to all of them