Nicaragua

• Every meal including breakfast, lunch, and dinner and unlimited water will be provided.
• Your daily accommodation.
• All airport transportation and transportation to your volunteer projects, schools, and designated activities.
• Building materials and educational resources, and local labor costs as needed.
• Local cultural activities (see program itinerary for specifics)
• Community donations
• Tuition for the Leadership development course

 Nicaragua is a peaceful and friendly country, whose locals will warmly welcome you. In the recent past, Nicaragua has struggled to develop as rapidly and solidly as its Central American neighbouring countries due to a poorer economy and fractured political structure. The recent years in draught has affected the economy, meaning that rural communities whose income relies on agriculture have struggled to provide income for their families. This has resulted in education and good health to be a challenge for Nicaraguans to have access to, especially in rural communities.

As a participant, you will receive guidance from local educators in our partner organization, Project Woo, who are based in Playa Gigante, and will provide support for you on how to assist in planning and delivering educational initiatives to promote good health through community workshops, as well as support broader school-based learning in the classroom. The volunteer work is challenging, but the opportunity to learn about the Nicaraguan culture is incredible. Every day, in some way, you will get to provide locals with the opportunity to progress a little farther in their pursuit an improved way of life and learning.

 Efforts this year will focus on further development of health education for the community, as well as teaching English and enhancing a local immersion program. This will be a collaboration with local youth to build a sustainable, ongoing Youth Club that will provide a healthy outlet for youth to come together and participate in surf lessons as well as continued English classes, arts and crafts, cooking and a variety of other activities.

Other teaching activities will focus on implementing a curriculum on good health, hosting monthly health fairs, and other outreach activities to provide education to the local community. If you are pursuing your TEFL certification, this will be an incredible opportunity to put your teaching skills into practice.

Through your engagement in the leadership workshops, you will learn from local leaders and each other as we develop a deep teaching and learning connection with others, which is essentially what it’s all about. EDventure collaborates with Project Woo to provide assistance in health education, teaching or with the building, painting, or other helpful activities here within the community.

Your own leadership skills will be shaped and strengthened whilst creating a lasting, positive change in these communities. During your time in this community, our qualified facilitators will assist you on your path of personal development to ensure you feel the positive impact of the deep connection you develop within the community, as well as apply your leadership skills directly to the needs of this community. An invaluable life experience will be gained along with a sense of achievement in an environment where your volunteer efforts and leadership abilities truly matter.

 This is about more than learning to speak Spanish, learning to surf, or working in local community health centers and schools. It’s about more than learning about and eating new local food. It’s about challenging yourself to live in a foreign country, and rise to many challenges and immerse completely in the local culture.

This is what the EDventure International programs are about. In Nicaragua, a country so vibrant with life and sun, beaches and lakes, and local people who are so warm and friendly, the possibilities and ways in which to push your own boundaries are seemingly infinite.

 Nicaragua boasts beautiful topography, from pristine beaches to pointed volcanos. The climate is tropical, hot and sometimes very wet, but you’ll appreciate the country as much as the locals do, and take an easy-going outlook to life. Fishing with the local fishermen, baking bread with local women in the rustic village, and hiking to scenic views overlooking the coast, or playing football with the local kids on the beach.

As you tour the colonial streets, walk along dusty roads through farmland, soak in the sun, and surf the waves, you’ll find yourself becoming more engrained into the community, and learning more about the world and yourself than you had imagined.