The time has come to say goodbye to the program directors of 2010-2011 and transition into the new group of volunteers for the upc...

The three week mark has come for us program directors of the year 2010-2011and so as one of our last little hoorahs before we leave we went ...

WHAT IS HOLISTIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT? What is holistic community development ? Well, that's a really good question. I feel like it...

the other night at the Manna House we had a PAPER MACHE PARTY!!! here are some pics

meet the new Program Directors and our lovely Country Director! Amira Tahir: Country Director likes: babies, lip gloss, jogging, spanglish...

Last weekend, the PDs embarked for Ometepe Island, located in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. Ometepe is home to two volcanoes, Maderas (extin...

After a three-week holiday break, MPI Nicaragua's Program Directors (PDs) have returned to the Manna house. Returning to a place that i...

We often talk about how difficult it must be for this Nicaraguan community to watch Manna PDs come and go each year. With a new group of gr...

If you’ve ever peeked through the slatted window of an elementary classroom in a Nicaraguan public school, you’ve witnessed chaos in its pur...

So, it’s been a few weeks since we’ve written. Let’s blame it on Semana Santa, shall we…?! The truth is that all of Nicaragua shuts down du...

Very few of us would jump into action at the offer to hike an “about to explode” volcano – but we were uncharacteristically brave this weeke...

In The Manna House- Two new Program Directors arrived: Kyle and Josh (another Josh! Who would have thought). They're absolutely splend...

Manna PDs returned to Nicaragua earlier this week, eager to begin another six months of sudor and amor. We’ve been well-fed, well-cleaned (...