Sponsored Projects
Building New Hope is proud to serve as fiscal sponsor for a few small projects in Central America whose mission coincides with our own. BNH provides financial services, serving as their legal 501(c)(3) identity, to enable them to receive tax-deductible contributions without the expense of obtaining their own registration. Contributions to these projects can by made through Building New Hope by designating your donation to one of these projects. Current sponsored projects are:
Granada Arts Education
... is collaborative, artist-driven project to help teachers strengthen their teaching skills and diversify their curriculum by including arts activities, and to allow students the opportunity to learn about their world and abroad through artistic expression and exchange between schools in different countries.
Read more about the Granada Arts Education project, including information about current events, via their blog here.
New Dawn
New Dawn for El Salvador promotes quality early childhood education for
rural Salvadoran children in the Bajo Lempa, the area where Building New
Hope originally began working. Co-founded by Lynnette Arnold, former
Building New Hope volunteer in El Salvador and Howard Booth, the New Dawn
project provides quarterly salary support to the sixteen female educators,
many single mothers, who staff childcare centers in the villages of Amando
Lopez, El Presidio Liberado, and La Canoa, as well as provides two meals a
day and three yearly medical check-ups to all the children.
To meet the children, staff, and parents of the New Dawn childcare centers on YouTube,
click here.
For more information, email NewDawn4ES@gmail.com.
The School of Comedy and Mime
 … is an innovative education project for young people of Granada, Nicaragua, in precarious impoverished family situations. Through theatre, clowning, mime and circus skills, students discover respect for others and themselves when taught that they can make a living through this art. These young folks have delighted audiences throughout Europe and Central America and attracted volunteer artist-teachers from around the world. The curriculum also includes the complete range of academic subjects. You can learn more at their website: www.escueladecomedia.org or email its director, Diego Gene, at saperoco@escueladecomedia.org.
 Cineastas de Granada
...is a film and video production program in Granada for teenage girls from families in financial need. The program offers courses in film and video production, including writing, directing, cinematography, sound and editing. The students are encouraged to use film for personal expression, crossing cultures and boundaries and transcending their everyday circumstances. Equally important is the contribution that these young women will make to the shape and content of the medium itself. For more information contact Thalia Drori at td@cinegranada.org or visit their website at cinegranada.org.
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