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Nicaragua
Matagalpa

City

Its people

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Other activities
 Benefits of TNT projects in
Nicaragua

Suggestions for Team 14

Nicaragua
Location- Nicaragua

Capital Managua

Climate Tropical in lowlands, cooler in

highlands

Population 5.500.000 ( est. In July 2006) It is

difficult to know exactly how the population of
Nicaragua is, because there is not a trustworthy
census. About all in the most impoverish rural
population because the parents do not register
the children when they born.
 Ethnic Groups About 75% are half-breed of
Hispanic origin and indigenous.
10% is made of population of Spanish origin
and European.
A little fraction of the population is indigenous,
and black descended, (specially in the Atlantic
Cost) among these indigenous there are the
miskitos, sumus and ramas, who keep their
own original languages.

It is amazing the highest younger population,

about 70% is under 30 years of age. It is
because the highest birth rate, in due to
religious and cultural reasons, they are
reluctant to use birth control methods.

Languages Spanish ( official) English and

Indigenous dialects in the Atlantic Coast.

Currency Crdoba. Actual change rate : US$

1.00 = C$ 18,25.
 Natural disasters: volcanoes, earthquakes, and
hurricanes. The most recently was Hurricane
Mitch, also called The Poverty Hurricane, which
left 2500 dead and 800 disappeared.

Matagalpa

Matagalpa
where we worked

Located 130 km from Managua capital.

Main industry: coffee plantations.

 Cold weather, with a temperature
between 21C 25C and localized
from 60 1745 msnm.

Population district over: 466,229.

2 Municipalities are helped: Matagalpa

and El Tuma La Dalia

It is well known by its black pottery.

Index

Nicaragua

Team 10 suggestions
 Projects

Phase I - constructions

Phase II utensils and filters

phase III Formations

Other projects.

Other activitities

Benefits of TNT Projects in

Nicaragua

Suggestions for team 13

 Team 12
suggestions

Budget TNT-PMA (US$10,000)

2 Kitchen warehouses

2 Fuel-efficient stoves

2 Multi-purpose kitchen sinks

1 Washing hands sinks

1 Rainwater collection system

2 Potable water filters

1 Classroom

6 Games of material of workshops

3 Trainings on hygiene and healthy

habits
 2 Set of Kitchen & canteen utensils

Index
Nicaragua

Team 12 suggestions

Projects

Phase I Constructions

Phase II Utensils

Phase III Trainings

Other proyects
 Other activities

Benefits of TNT projects in

Nicaragua

Suggestions for team 13

Phase I
Constructions

First of all we did meetings with

the parents, teachers and
foreman to organize works
teams.
 Delivery of the materials, with
the correspondent list for check
and control.

Once all the materials were in

optimal conditions, they were
warehoused and the community
had to take care of it.

The microprojects constructions

started on June 5th and ended
on July 2th.

Phase I
Constructions
 Phase I
Constructions
Hilipo

Located in Pueblo Viejo, 29 km

from Matagalpa.

145 preschoolers children and

primary multi grade with 4
female teachers.

Main activities to generate

income is the subsistence
agricultural.

They have permanent running

water and also the havey electric
energy.
 The foreman worked very hard
among with parents, overcoming
all the expectative because they
finished in record time only in 15
days.

The community was very

participative and organized.

Phase I
Constructions
Emmanuel Mongalo

Preschool 178 children and 6

female teacher.
 Without running water or electric
energy, only 25% they have
running water and electric
energy.

The communities worked very

hard, they were very organized
with a very active community.

This has facilitated the

communications and the good
knowledge in all the activities.

Phase I
Constructions
 Phase II -
Utensils and
Filters
Utensils for the schools

Kitchen and canteen utensils:

disserts, spoons, cups.

Other articles for the schools

Primero de Mayo, Hilipo and
Emmanuel Mongalo.

3 Potable water filters: for

Primero de Mayo, Hilipo and
Emmanuel Mongalo.
 Posters about hygiene
information, where with easy
words and draws explain to
parents and children basic rules
and how to maintenance the new
installations.
 Fase III
Formacin
Other activities
Other activities
Other activities
Aditional activities
Other activities
We organized a drawing contest in
Primero de Mayo School to know
what it meant to them The
Schools Alimentation Programme.
 We donated colors and blocks (a
white sheet notebook) to each
boy and girl of the school.

Other activities
Other activities
Activities with
children
For us is very important the contact
with children, for this reason we
expend a lot of time with them,
dancing and playing. We have a very
good and funny time.

Inaugurations
Benefits of the TNT
Projects - Team 13
in Nicaragua
Benefits for the community

In general improves the quality of life in the

communities.

Children receive a warm meal and just cooked,

they feel happier and the attention level is much
higher.

Mothers avoid heavy loads of warm food from

their houses to school and the risk to get
respiratory diseases decreases because the
majority of the houses do not have chimneys.

Adequate storage in the kitchen warehouse avoid

conflict among the members of the community;
because before that the food was storage in their
own houses and people use to think the food
could be eaten for their own consumption.
Benefits of the TNT
Projects in
Nicaragua
Benefits for the comunity

Food will be cooked in better hygienic

condition with major quality control.

Every kid will have his own dishes,

spoon and cup.

One meal a day will be guaranteed.

 These constructions are the buildings
with the best infrastructure and
equipments of all the community. They
have washing hands sinks, latrines,
running water, drainage to avoid floods
and infectious focus. All of these
incentive the children to want to assist
to class and their parents to enroll
them because they encounter beautiful
environment, clean and with major
possibilities than in their own houses.

Benefits of TNT
Proyects in
Nicaragua
BENEFITS TO PMA IN NICARAGUA
 Thanks to the money donated by TNT
supported structures in School Feeding
Programme have been created,
fortifying the main aims of this
organization: decrease hunger,
increase the daily school assistance,
decrease absenteeism rates and
improve hygiene conditions.

It also contribute to reach one of the

millennium aim: taking care the
environment, building structures that
protect the nature.

Whit the Eco stoves the

excessive wood consume is
decreasing, above all in open
spaces, and they maintenance
better the heat.

Latrines help to a not

contaminated environment.
 Drainage systems in the washing
hand sinks prevent infection
focus.

Volunteers give new ideas and

motivate to the community in a
well use and sustainability of the
projects. They create social
conscience.

We are the best TNT projects

ambassadors in our respective
countries, telling to donors all the
benefits of their money.

Suggestions for
Team 14
Suggestions for
Team 14
 Recomendations
Acknowledgement
s
Many specially to Liz Maria Ubeda,
because we could not have had a
better coordinator. Many thanks for
your patient, love, comprehension,
support and your knowledge. For you,
our best regard!

TNT Espaa and TNT Argentina

Alex Stukenberg

Annmarie Isler
 Maria Victoria Ta-Asan

Scarlet Lanzas

WFP in Matagalpa

WFP in Managua

To the rest of WFP staff and

volunteers of another countries of
Team 12, it have been an authentic
privilege sharing our experiences with
yours.

People of Matagalpa
 We must not forget our families,
friends colleagues in our country
because of their support since the
first moment we applied for the
programme.

THANK
YOU !!!