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Hi, I'm Dale Hunter. I'm a retired college teacher in Vancouver. My wife Yvonne and I spent a year in Nicaragua in 2017, doing education-related projects and getting to know local people.
In San Juan del Sur we met Edgard Henriquez, who leads a free rural high school program. Now Covid 19 is starting to roll over Nicaragua. Edgard and his school have stepped up to take a leadership role in Tortuga and Bernardino, the two communities served by the school. We set up this fundraiser to help them get local people as informed and as ready as possible.
With the money we've sent so far, the school has already provided provided thermometers, glucometers, blood pressure meters, a blood oxygen meter, soap, hand sanitizer (for households that have insufficient water), bleach, and locally-made high quality cloth face masks. They've been printing, distributing and posting instructional posters we adapted from WHO, BBC and US and Spanish CDC online publications. They're pictorial and easy to follow. The school folks have been training the students to demonstrate correct handwashing, disinfection of surfaces, realistic social distancing, and managing suspected Covid cases.
They've been able to do a good initial outreach in Tortuga and Bernardino, and want to expand to more villages around San Juan del Sur if the funds we raise support that.
When they find households that haven't got adequate food, Edgard will use a portion of the funding to provide food. He doesn't think this will be one of the principal outlays for the project, but he felt it was important to get permission to do it, which we of course gave him.
Edgard, the teachers and the students are doing well! They have thrown themselves into this project. . Conditions in rural Nicaragua are really tough. Please help us put more tools and materials in their hands.
Saludos, mucho ánimo!
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