Josefa and Martin, two of the business development recipients, have designed their first business cards.  Special thanks to summer volunteer...

Today in El Farito the Summer Interns taught the kids a new craft! We made these awesome little start doorknob hangers.  So proud of how the...

A Place to Call Home I'm one of the summer interns who's here in Nicaragua for eight weeks, learning from the program directo...

The Little Things While it may seem intimidating at first, making the leap to volunteering in another country is something that everyon...

 ".... one of the boys woke up at 5 am to make it to class on time" I walked into the house of my host family for only the s...

When I arrived in Nicaragua as a summer intern two weeks ago, I was not sure what to expect. Since then, I can honestly say I have been floo...

Martha Ney is the mother of 2 amazing sons, David and Alejandro, who participate in MPI’ s Baseball, Math, Literacy and English Programs. M...

Laura Zelaya  “I wouldn’t have this store today if it wasn’t for Manna Project,” says   Laura Zelaya as she begins to tell the story of ...

Today was Mother’s Day here in Nicaragua, or as they call it in Spanish El Día de Las Madres.  Being an extremely important and widely celeb...

WOMEN'S FITNESS Bi-weekly the women of Cedro Galan meet and have an hour long fitness class. The women come to class in the same clot...

GIRLS' DANCE CAMP My first experience with MPI was as a Summer Volunteer in Quito, Ecuador in 2009. A fellow Summer Volunteer and goo...

T EETH-BRUSHING PROGRAM Twice a week Manna Project Nica helps out with a feeding program that is hosted by the Augusts. Kathy August and Hal...

BLOG ACTION DAY: DRINKING WATER IN NICARAGUA When I first arrived in Nicaragua I was ambivalent about drinking the tap water. Before depar...

CREATIVE ARTS CLASS Every Tuesday and Thursday in Cedro Galan we host a children's Creative Arts Class that teaches everything from pa...

RE-STARTING CHILDREN'S LITERACY CLASS As we have been working for the past few months here in community we have been noticing in our eng...

Literacy's (Cedro) weekly trip to the library at El Salero has brought with it exposure to a certain learning device that, while regarde...