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Volunteers Improve Educational Infrastructure in Central America

On July 9-23, 2011, 20 volunteers from the US, Nicaragua, Honduras, French, and Guatemala improved the educational facilities of two schools in Nicaragua and Honduras providing 200 children with brighter and more adequate learning environments. 

Nicaraguan, Honduran, French and USA volunteers renewed the classrooms and recreational spaces of two primary schools in Managua, Nicaragua, and Nuevas Flores, Honduras. "The volunteers replaced doors, windows and floors and painted the schools," reports Claudia Raudales, Central America Regional Director for Service For Peace. 

The project included the planting of 6,000 plants and trees in the educational spaces and engaged community members and children to learn to care for them. "The school and the community will be in charge of caring for the seeds and trees in the school and in their neighborhoods," said Jose Samper, the Director of Service For Peace in Nicaragua.

During the implementation of both projects the local communities helped the volunteers to renew the schools, especially the parents of the children that attend the school.  "The participation of the community in the projects is the key element to start to identify local leaders who will can help us to design and implement future projects in the communities," Raudales expressed.

Service For Peace in Central America has been working for over 5 years on the improvement the education in communities throughout Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras, with the support of international and local volunteers.

"As a leader of the Global PeaceMakers projects in both countries I learned about the local development experiences that we had in both communities. The culture, the language, the nationality or social levels don't matter--local and international volunteers worked together for one cause: to improve the life of our future generations," commented Luis Argenal, Honduras National Coordinator.