Volunteering in Nicaragua

Without a doubt, volunteering is a way to give a gift to yourself as well as to others. Ask Building New Hope volunteers about their service to our projects. Hands down, the experience was a positive one…a mix of sharing, learning, joy, and frustrations that add up to a most valuable addition to the volunteer’s life.

“Service to others is the rent you pay for
your room here on Earth.”
-Shirley Chisolm , U.S. Congresswoman

If you can give at least a one month time commitment and have an intermediate language level of Spanish, you can:

• Serve as a teacher’s assistant in Escuelita Yo Puedo or Quinta Los Chavalos.  Can you teach music, art, reading, math, or English? Can you guide discussion groups among students, or encourage critical thinking? We have a place for you!

• Conduct home studies with families of our students. This requires visits in the barrios to assess family situations, address school problems with parent, report to other teachers in the school to form a plan of action for individual students to help them glean the best from their educational opportunity with our school and their public school.

• Serve as a veterinarian or animal technician to work in Casa Lupita. Elementary Spanish is required.

• Mentor or tutor teenagers in a special subject, such as math, physics, biology, Spanish, creative writing. Please feel free to bring to the classroom any expertise that you have and can share with inquisitive students..... microbiology? astronomy? nutrition? Etc?

Volunteer Stories

Uli Pollitz is looking forward to her fourth time of volunteering with our Escuelita Yo Puedo school project. A special education teacher back home in Heidelburg, Germany, she has raised funds from friends and family for a nutrition program for the Nicaraguan children that she continues to hold in her heart.

“Volunteer not so you can build your
resume but so you can build yourself.”
- anonymous

Isa Neves from Lisbon, Portugal committed eight months of volunteering with Building New Hope. She helped to spearhead our learning center in one of Granada's poorest neighborhoods. Isa has 56 children in her care each weekday. A recent college graduate, she holds a degree in social psychology.

For More Information

For information, contact Donna at donna@buildingnewhope.org. Or, click here to fill out a volunteer questionnaire and we will contact you.