The Forgotten Children of the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes

To see how project began  Click here    The project has since changed its name to The Forgotten Children of the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes. To donate via   Peace and Hope All money collected here is passed to our account for the Ometepe Project and some attracts gift aid which helps us a lot. When the boxes arrived in Ometepe in early May, there was great excitement from the secondary school when the children all received pens and pencils.  The headteacher mentioned that they had nowhere to keep the books and they were getting damaged. Given they have so little things need to be well looked after, So I got Marvin onto it, and he visited Daniel, the local carpenter who has helped us before.  Together they visited the school and made a plan.  I felt we could afford this straight away. Since that we have contributed to the journey of the girls' football team to compete in the national league at Managua.

Martin's story Martin is the brother of Jose Antonio, with whom I originally set up the project of The Forgotten Children of the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes in 2017. Martin works in a coffee finca run by an American businessman.  He looks after the coffee plants and deals with the processing, and has responsibility for the temporary workers.  He earns a very small salary. Martin is 29,   married with a wife Veronica, two stepchildren Anjuly, 12 and Jimena, 11 and a son Édouard, 6, who has just moved into the first grade from preschool.. Martin has a small plot of land belonging to the family which he cultivates with coffee. This provides the coffee for the family. There is a lot of work as the plants have to be kept fertilised and free of disease.  There is an optimum time for the beans to be picked.  They are inside a soft casing, which has to be stripped off. We visited the plot whilst I

 Mike and Reina Reinstein entertaining at our music event at the Chapel Billingshurst . We raised £579.55 for the fund.  It was a great social evening with great food , things for sale, raffle and exhibition.  Much interest was shown in the information about Ometepe.   People socialising and shopping  Huckabone entertaining us. In May, I attended Peace and Hope's gathering in Herefordshire.  This was a good opportunity to share updates on the project with others who are supporting their work in Bluefields.  I received a good response and a lot of interest, as well as selling a few colouring books and cards.   I was also asked to talk to the Soroptomists in Godalming, so a further group of people has gone away informed both about the challenges of life in Nicaragua and about the project.