Annual Report 2021 - World Vision Nicaragua

NICARAGUA

Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022

Message from the Director

We left behind a year of major challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic and Hurricane Julia. We thank God and our partners and friends because with their support we were able to adapt and provide a rapid response to nearly half a million of girls, boys and adults affected by the pandemic, and those impacted by hurricane Julia in Nicaragua.

This humanitarian aid, which is part of our DNA, complemented our daily work to serve over 34,000 vulnerable children and adolescents in eight departments around the country. They and their family are supported by our Spirituality, Protection and Education technical program; thus, enabling them to feel loved by God, and become socio-emotionally resilient to live in protecting environments.

They are also supported by our Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience technical program. This turns into projects of access to safe water and sanitation in communities and schools. In addition, it fosters entrepreneurship for families to increase and diversify their income.

Our goal for this new 2022 – 2024 strategic cycle is helping over one million three hundred thousand vulnerable girls, boys and adolescents to develop positive, tender and peaceful relationships with their family and communities, thus contributing to their development and key participation as part of their human rights.

Thus, we joined our efforts and strategies. As a bloc, we deal with critical issues for the region such as the Dry Corridor, human migration and food insecurity in Central America.

As a bloc, we also tackle these issues in conjunction with important partners such as churches, the European Union, the World Fund or IDB, among others. As CA4, we launch projects and programs such as the Global Initiative Against Hunger, Youth Ready or Christian Discipleship, for instance.

In this way, and – of course – with the collaboration of different public entities, we are able to contribute to the local development and increase our scope and impact in the territories where we have presence. Certainly, we will face new challenges in 2023; therefore, we have an ongoing mission, and we know that with the guidance of our Lord Jesus Christ we will be able to respond to any future challenge, always in the benefit of Nicaraguan children and adolescents.

“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps”. Proverbs 16:9

To this end, World Vision Nicaragua has joined Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras offices to create a single CA4 cluster.

Rigoberto Shelevy Country Program Director

Our strategic objective

Help over one million three hundred vulnerable children and adolescents develop positive, tender and peaceful relationships with their family and communities, thus contributing to their development and key participation as part of children’s rights.

Our aspirations for

child well-being

Girls and boys experience love of God and their neighbors

Girls and boys are cared for, protected, and participating

That their families and communities become resilient to climate change and natural disasters Gain access to safe water and basic sanitation

Girls and boys are educated for life

We see children’s well-being holistically through a healthy and individual development, engaging their physical and mental health, their social and spiritual dimensions, positive relationships and a context that provides them with safety, social justice and participation in civil society.

Who we are?

World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organization focused on the holistic well-being of the most vulnerable children and adolescents around the country. In Nicaragua, World Vision has been working for over 30 consecutive years, launching sustainable development projects through promotion and programming in three key areas:

Child Protection, Water and Sanitation, and Education and Life Skills.

Safe Organization

We are a zero-tolerance organization to any form of violence against children, adolescents, and adult beneficiaries we serve.

World Vision has a Safe Organization Policy containing 9 mandatory child protection standards for its staff members, donors, sponsors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, visitors, partners, security guards and affiliate partners of World Vision.

Mission Vision

Follow our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

Where are we located?

Beyond its emergency response, World Vision Nicaragua permanently contributes to improving the quality of life of over 225,000 people directly.

World Vision serves 18,055 people at risk of contracting HIV, and 3,613,415 people at risk of contracting tuberculosis.

8 24 500 1,043 34,309

Departments Municipalities Communities and neighborhoods Community volunteers Sponsored girls and boys

Siuna

Matagalp a

Boaco

Managu a

León

Estelí

Madriz

Jinoteg a

Rosita

Prinzapolka

Humanitarian Response

Humanitarian aid Organization

Response to floods, hurricane Julia and the Covid-19 pandemic

Category one hurricane Julia (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) made a landfall in Nicaragua on October 9, 2022. In its path through the country, it caused flooding, landslides, and damage to essential infrastructures such as telecommunications, power supply, access to safe water, emergency services, road infrastructure and houses.

Around 800,000 families were affected by this hurricane. At that moment, over 20,000 people were evacuated from high impact and risk zones. According to official statistics, damage totaled 402.6 million dollars.

World Vision Nicaragua, as a humanitarian organization, conducted a rapid assessment of the main impacts and needs of people in affected zones, and the results of this assessment enabled the organization to define its multisectoral response plan to benefit 1,441 households.

After hurricane Julia’s impact, using its own funds, World Vision Nicaragua distributed immediate recovery kits to 1,441 families (6,527 people) in 9 municipalities around the country. The response plan initiated in November 2022 and finished in February 2023 in Jinotega, Matagalpa, Estelí, Boaco and León departments.

7,724

The immediate recovery kit contained a nutritional package to supply families with food for 15 days. In addition, a hygiene kit that included family and personal care items, and Covid-19 prevention items was provided. Similarly, water filters and containers to drink safe water were distributed to families in the most affected zones.

Continuing the recovery of families affected by hurricane Julia, World Vision conducted the second distribution of 1,441 family hygiene kits in February 2023 in the aforementioned departments.

Prior to this humanitarian operation, World Vision Nicaragua supported families in Tipitapa municipality who were affected by intense rains that occurred from September 10th to September 20th, 2022. The immediate response was focused on meeting the immediate needs of 130 families affected by flash flooding at San Luis, Miraluz and San Jorge communities in Tipitapa municipality.

In total, 624 people benefited from this initiative. Beneficiary families received family hygiene and food kits, water and containers, bed linens, and materials to build temporary shelters.

We benefited:

People with humanitarian aid as a result of damage caused by flooding and the impact of hurricane Julia.

U$272,649

In the form of funds invested in the emergency response launched in response to flooding and hurricane Julia.

Multisectoral Response through Food and Agricultural Assistance Along

Nicaragua’s Dry Corridor

With the support of USAID and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, World Vision initiated this project which is intended to alleviate the suffering and damage caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota in households located along Nicaragua’s Dry Corridor. The project is intended to improve agricultural production of rural households inhabited by vulnerable farmers in the departments of Madriz, Jinotega and León, located along Nicaragua’s Dry Corridor. The project is also focused on enhancing food security of vulnerable families in target municipalities.

Location

Madriz, Jinotega, León

Food Assistance

The project is focused on meeting the food needs of the most vulnerable households in the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua through:

• Distribution of food packages through food vouchers or food stamps. Distributed food include rice, beans, salt, cooking oil, chicken meat, sardine, eggs, corn and oats.

• The estimated cost of each food package is USD104.00.

• 4,000 households have benefited with these food packages.

15 months

(From June 2022 to August 2023)

Beneficiaries

16,000 people

Agricultural Assistance

This project provides agricultural assistance which makes different communities to become sustainable. This is made possible by the:

• Distribution of certified corn and beans seeds

• Distribution of vegetable seeds to establish family vegetable gardens

• Distribution of toolkits for planting family vegetable gardens, including machete, rake, hole digger, shovel, mattock and watering can)

• Distribution of fertilizer

• Distribution of organic fertilizer

• Distribution of backpack sprayer for foliage purposes

• Exchange of experiences with agricultural promoters

• Soil analysis in target communities

• Improved agricultural practices through training sessions, and educational material such as triptychs and booklets for agricultural promoters.

Regular Programming

Spirituality, Protection and Education

Spirituality, Protection and Education

Context

In Nicaragua, the 2022 country agenda was focused on the promotion and development of an inclusive, equitable and quality education to promote better opportunities for Nicaraguan children, adolescents, and adult people.

The agenda also considered violence prevention by including the schools of values approach and promoting equitable and responsible relationships. However, factors such as poverty, Covid-19 aftermath, natural adverse phenomena, and human migration pose constraints for Nicaraguan families to reach their human development and their expected full well-being.

This technical program implements projects aimed at fostering a family and community environment contributing to a holistic development through spiritual growth and strengthening of educational quality of children and adolescents. This program is implemented in strategic partnership with churches, government institutions and other entities for children, adolescents, and youth to feel loved by God, and become socio-emotionally resilient to live in protecting environments.

Components

Education: Children are educated for life.

Protection: Children are cared for, protected, and participating.

Spirituality: Children experience love of God and their neighbors.

Help children to have access to quality education in the different stages of their development, by developing essential skills to explore their potential and vocation.

Increase in primary school children who can read. Increase in adolescents’ education and life skills.

That children and adolescents cared for, protected and participate as subjects of rights.

Increase in children protected against violence.

That children, adolescents and their family experience the love of God and strengthen their spiritual growth.

Increase in children who have positive relationships with their family and community members.

Our Methodologies and Models

Parenting with Tenderness

This methodology is aimed at healing human suffering caused by violence and proposes tenderness as a balsam and community solidarity to share them with children and adolescents in socialization and training process.

Paths of Protection and Tenderness

This fun and learning methodology helps children and adolescents to assertively identify the different risk factors in their environment in order to strengthen their self-protection mechanisms.

Papito Nuestro

It is a methodology developed for families to learn to pray while they play. The idea is that every member of each family identify the sense and purpose of their lives while they strengthen – through tenderness – their relationship with God, with themselves, and with others, including the nature.

This is model helps children develop comprehensive reading and life skills by promoting spaces for gathering and developing a taste for reading and creativity together with their parents as multipliers of animated reading.

UNLOCK LITERACY (Child literacy)

This model includes techniques, methods and activities to promote literacy in children and adolescents. It promotes and makes the most of the involvement of different community members to support children’s reading skills according to their needs and based on the context.

It is a guidance and spiritual growth methodology that helps children and adolescents live an experience of spiritual approach to God through reflexive thinking, artistic expression and games.

GODLY PLAY

I Read, Comment, Imagine and Believe

Testimony

“We have been living in this community for three years. When I came here, children would barely read. They would read haltingly and recognized very few letters. Nowadays, three years later, I have seen that they have achieved reading fluency, they know how to express themselves, they have overcome fear by presenting themselves in public and in front of their brothers and classmates as well.”

It has been a very rewarding experience to me; firstly, as a person, secondly, as a mother, and thirdly, as a female faith leader, knowing that God tells me “Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it”, and doing it using biblical material, and the Holy Bible has been such a great blessing”

Brenda Luna is a faith-based leader and a reading promoter as well. She serves 97 children aged 6 -12 who attend the reading clubs.

“My heart has a great passion for working with children”

Components in Figures

Education

21,210

Vulnerable children and adolescents equipped through the special cases of educational needs initiative, and they also received reading kits to raise their awareness about reading.

15,787

Children and adolescents have access to fun and learning, creative and child-friendly environments to achieve an optimum learning experience by fitting out 140 rural and urban primary schools.

3,255

Children and adolescents participate in 232 reading clubs to reinforce their literacy and reading comprehension skills.

78

As a result of the partnership between World Vision and MINED, school principals and educational advisors in 16 departments around the country strengthened their competencies in animated reading.

37

MINED’s educational advisors and its administrative staff at the national level held an assessment session with WVNIC in order to share progress in terms of comprehensive reading strategies.

Protection

35,218

People participated in a campaign intended to increase their awareness of self-protection, children’s rights and both acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

689

Children and adolescents trained on the Paths of Protection and Tenderness awareness-raising methodology to identify self-protection, children’s rights and life skills.

183

People in 6 municipalities participate in awareness-raising talks held by MIFAN during a campaign on prevention of child labor.

Spirituality

718

Children and adolescents trained by community leaders during spiritual nurturing training sessions based on biblical stories and parables contained in the Godly Play methodology to instill positive values and their love for God.

161

74 community volunteers provided adolescents with training on the Celebrating in Family methodology. As a result, they acquired basic tools to strengthen their family integration, self-esteem and appropriate emotional development, thus improving their spiritual nurturing in their path to God.

Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience

Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience

Context

In Nicaragua, natural hazards and man-made disasters occur on a recurring basis, and they cause different emergency situations or disasters simultaneously. The combination of these factors leads to complex scenarios.

While planning its national level response to natural disasters, World Vision Nicaragua takes into account scenarios in case of both most likely to occur events and those with low probability of occurrence, but with a high impact. These scenarios may include tremors, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hydrometeorological phenomena, and health-related events.

The Technical Program named Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience for Children, Adolescents, Youth and their Family implements projects of access to safe water and sanitation in communities, schools and health posts, and it also strengthens competencies to develop safe livelihoods through agricultural practices, and soil and water preservation works. In addition, it fosters entrepreneurship initiatives for families to increase and diversify their income.

Components:

Entrepreneurship

Climatically intelligent agriculture

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Risk management.

Put an end to hunger, achieve food security, improved nutrition and promote agriculture.

Our Aspirations

Ensure access to safe water and basic sanitation.

Make families and communities resilient to climate change and disasters.

Take urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts.

We contribute to achieve these aspirations as follows:

We improve sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation on the basis of risk analyses and climate change effects with the participation of the most vulnerable children, their families and communities.

By increasing the number of children with access to water and basic sanitation.

By increasing the number of families that use positive practices to protect the environment, particularly to protect surface and ground water.

We carry out activities intended to promote nutritional well-being and diversification of production at household and community level.

We contribute to build competencies of community members and leaders in disaster risk management, including cross-cutting themes such as equality, protection of children in emergency and psychoemotional attention.

Our Methodologies

WASH

This is a model of integrated project of water, sanitation and hygiene which main actions include management and execution of projects of access to safe water, sanitation in communities, schools and health posts, among others. Consequently, the project seeks to improve child well-being, health, nutrition and education outcomes respectively.

FECSA

Healthy Families, Schools and Communities (FECSA) is a methodology used in World Vision’s water and sanitation projects to promote local development and community management through capacity building of promoters, community leaders and communities in general. Its objective is the improved knowledge to promote hygiene and behavior change of vulnerable communities and children.

YOUTH READY

This methodology provides families with necessary steps to define their answer to different hazards. This tool enables people to reinforce their organization and operating competencies to protect their lives in case of adverse events.

Risk Management

The Youth Ready methodology was designed to empower vulnerable youth and adolescents aged 16 -24. It is an integral methodology that encourages them to prepare a life plan, formulate business plans that motivate them to make their dreams come true and attain their goals through an entrepreneurship module.

(Farms with agrosystems resilient to climate change)

Promotion of agrosystems through diversified agricultural practices in order to increase their resilience to the negative effects of climate change, thus improving productive recovery of soil, water, forests and food diversity that contribute to the sustainable environmental development of families and communities.

Climatically Intelligent Agriculture

Components in figures

Entrepreneurship

405 Youth received training on the Youth Ready methodology to acquire employability skills, soft skills and learn about the Canvas model.

28 Training sessions on the Youth Ready methodology led to new entrepreneurships.

75 Youth participated in Learning Units as part of the Digital Entrepreneurship project to use technology in their entrepreneurships.

Climatically Intelligent Agriculture

213 Farmers in 19 communities diversified their plots by growing vegetables, citruses, and basic grains after receiving a toolkit and increasing their awareness through workshops.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

1,235

Families in 26 communities participated in behavior change processes during hygiene practices.

3,698

Children received training on handwashing, solid waste management, food hygiene and cleaning-up of toilets.

2,595

People in 6 communities have access to water thanks to the construction and/or rehabilitation of water supply systems (construction of water storage tank, installation of pipeline and distribution network).

2,773

Students in 13 schools with improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene due to rehabilitation and construction of water infrastructure and sanitation services. Similarly, works were performed in 4 health posts.

Risk Management

41

People in 38 communities raised their awareness of Disaster and Risk Reduction Management and social issues, which contributed to improve their organization, identity and community preparedness competencies.

Testimony

“The latrine we had was deteriorated because when it rained the latrine flooded. When children would get sick from the stomach, they contracted diarrhea, then we had to leave in the dark of night and had to be alert of bugs that hide inside latrines, such as snakes, cockroaches and toads.

Two years ago, the program of World Vision came to my community, and from then on we have experienced a great change because they implemented the biodigester project. As a woman, I have experienced a great change in my menstrual hygiene. I feel comfortable and safe because the project provided us with a toilet inside the house. I never thought we were going to have a toilet.”

Daisy is mother to three children and thanks to the support of World Vision Nicaragua, now, like other 60 families in Yalí, she has a biodigester which makes it possible for her to have a toilet in her home.

“I feel very glad because my daughter is not going through that experience”

Sectoral Projects

Health

Promotion, prevention and attention to contain and reduce HIV and Tuberculosis considering a gender, equity and human rights approach

Context

The HIV and tuberculosis epidemics are a public health issue in Nicaragua and around the world, and their impact is not only expressed in people’s health status, but in their behavior and quality of life, particularly in vulnerable children and adults. According to the 2020 Behavior Surveillance Survey, Nicaragua reports a concentrated epidemic with a higher prevalence among key populations.

The World Fund, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MINSA), the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), subrecipients implementers of funds and World Vision Nicaragua, principal recipient, executed USD 3,958,473 in 2022 to contain and eliminate such epidemics.

Description

The Strengthening Nicaragua through Prevention and Health Care to Contain HIV and TB Epidemics within a Sustainable Response project is aimed at improving promotion, prevention, care and follow-up interventions addressed to key and vulnerable populations in geographic areas with the highest burden of TB and HIV considering a gender-based, equity, human rights, ethnicity and non-discrimination approach.

Project Scope

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SUBRECIPIENTS

are executing the project. The Center for Research and Studies of Health (CIES), the Nicaraguan Association of Positive People Fighting for Life, Damian Foundation and the Nicaraguan Association of HIV Positive People (ASONVIHSIDA).

Departments and 24 municipalities

10 served in primary and secondary prevention and treatment of HIV.

Departments and 37 municipalities

18,055

13 served in terms of prevention and treatment of TUBERCULOSIS.

at risk of contracting HIV were served. PEOPLE

3,613,415 at risk of contracting TUBERCULOSIS were served. PEOPLE

USD 3,958,473 were spent to eliminate HIV and TUBERCULOSIS in the country.

Assistance to key population in education and risks communication to adopt healthy behaviors through cybereducation

The program of HIV and Tuberculosis Cyber-educators is implemented through 4 subrecipients (CIES, Damian Foundation, Anicp+vida and ASONVIHSIDA), and it is intended to reach key populations and the population at large using social media in which - through behavior change interventions - people are sensitized to promote healthy behaviors enabling them to contain and prevent the HIV and TB epidemics.

The main objective of the program is educating, identifying, reaching and referring program users to conduct personalized follow-up, and properly linking them to different health care services according to their needs.

Reach of CYBEREDUCATION in 2022

461,049 in different online platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok and Youtube).

Reach of WV publications

62,634 INTERACTIONS COMPLETED

1,850 PEOPLE served and addressed online.

126 Effective referrals to different health services.

Capacity building

WorldVision Nicaragua participates and contributes to the development of the “Cyber Education 2.0 Telephone Network”, an action led by the Country Coordinating Mechanism, MINSA and NicaSalud Network as part of the national response to the four epidemics spread in the country (HIV/ TB/ Malaria/ Covid-19) to retrain people about neglect of patients integrated to health care services, training of new patients on health care services, and increased demand of medical services.

1,300 Cell phones with plans were distributed to the community health network

600 Cell phones with plans were distributed to the healthcare staff in the 19 SILAIS prioritized in the country

105 Cell phones with plans were distributed to the CAI (Clinic for Comprehensive Health care) staff

Prevention of Child Labor

Educational Bridges

Context

The recently finished 2021 – 2022 coffee year set a record in exports in Nicaragua. Preliminary official data report a 49.2% growth in export values over the previous period. This figure accounts for around a third of all the seasonal rural jobs, which is the reason why families migrate internally. Normally, these families travel with their children, which directly affects children and adolescents as they have to drop out school for at least three months. This situation has an impact on school repetition or school drop-out rates.

Children are exposed to both child labor and other types of violence. The Educational Bridges project was launched to ensure that children may have a safe environment and continue studying.

Educational Bridges is an informal educational mode that provides comprehensive attention to children under 14 years that live in coffee plantations or farms, or those who emigrate with their family during the coffee harvesting season.

It is a socio-emotional, educational, child-friendly, healthy and recreational space for the comprehensive development of children and adolescents. It fosters the socialization and reinforcement of their self-esteem, and their interaction through games, group dynamics aimed at learning life skills such as comprehensive reading, mathematical calculation, and logical thinking as part of the awareness and exercise of their rights.

Objective

Contribute to the protection and educational continuity of children and adolescents in seasonal migration zones.

Implementation of 2021 – 2022 Educational Bridges

During the 2021 -2022 coffee harvesting season, World Vision in partnership with Santa Martha coffee farm, located in San Ramón municipality, Matagalpa and La Lima community, implemented the Educational Bridges project, thus serving 84 children and adolescents and 36 mothers from nearby zones, and migrants from different parts of the country.

Various activities were carried out during the coffee harvesting season to contribute to the education, protection and spirituality of children through different models and methodologies aimed at strengthening learning, self-care, self-esteem, personal growth and development of children’s oral and written expression. These models and methodologies include the Unlock Literacy, Paths of Protection and Tenderness and/ or Godly Play.

Santa Martha coffee farm provided food (3 meals) appropriate and safe facilities for children, including financial support for two facilitators and two caregivers, distribution of Christmas gifts and furniture to fit out the Educational Bridge.

San Ramón, Matagalpa

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The total number of participating children and adolescent was: 84

52 girls and 32 boys

Aged 0-18

36 m others participated i n an a wareness-raising process to prevent child labor

Child-friendly Christian Discipleship

Child-friendly Christian Discipleship

Context

Christian Discipleship is a spiritual nurturing project that seeks to help children, adolescents, and youth (CAY) experience the Love of God and share it with their fellow men.

The holistic development of children, adolescents and youth is affected by fragile settings that deprive them of the experience of the Love of God and their fellow men’s. The project is focused on the barriers or factors that prevent children from having a normal family life with their family and God.

The project is implemented in Asia, Africa and in four countries in the Central American region, namely Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as a response to social, economic, environmental problems and the Covid-19 pandemic which affect the stability and comprehensive development of families and communities.

What is expected from the project?

That CAY experience the Love of God in their home, church and community.

Consequently, it is important for:

Parents and caregivers to support the spiritual development of CAY within a caring environment.

CAY to grow in faith through the experience of a meaningful life purpose and harmonious relationships.

Churches and faith-based organizations to bring CAY closer to the Reign of God by mobilizing resources to promote their holistic development.

The three mail pillars addressed by the project are:

Parents and caregivers for them to support the holistic development of CAY in a loving environment.

Children for them to experience the meaning of the faith, their lives and loving relationships.

Churches and faith-based organizations (FBOs) for them to bring CAY closer to the reign of God through the processes of Child-friendly Christian Discipleship.

The project will run for 5 years (2022-2026)

Its GOAL includes reaching:

250,000 Girls and Boys

9,000 Parents and caregivers

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Territories where the organization has presence since 2022

San Rafael del Norte

Pantasma

Condega Yali

San Dionisio Tipitapa Matiguas

San Ramón

Our partners are churches and FBOs

CEPAD

Baptist Convention of Nicaragua

Interchurch Center for Social and Theological Studies

Ecclesiastic Base Communities

Church of God

Pastoral Education Managua

Churches supported by SOS Children’s Villages

Pastoral Education Matagalpa

Churches Orinoco/ Laguna de Perlas

Lutheran church

Missionary Childhood

Center for Education and Training in Honor of Sister Maura Clarke

1,000,000 USD for five fiscal years (FY22 – FY26) with an annual cost of 200,000 dollars.

Single donor World Vision US

Digital Empowerment

Context

The Digital Empowerment project is aimed at improving technical and digital skills of adolescents and youth aged 1619 to broaden their entrepreneurship and job opportunities in new market spaces.

The strengthening of skills is intended to close the gap of technological knowledge and skills of secondary school, vocational training or university students and unemployed youth or those trying to find a livelihood and provide them with competencies to produce innovative business ideas.

This project, launched by World Vision, is funded by the Cardón Fund.

Digital Empowerment

Managua, San Lorenzo and Santa Lucía municipalities.

Location Length

August 2022 – September 2023

Invested Funds

Direct Beneficiaries

40 youth in San Lorenzo

35 youth in Santa Lucía

25 youth in Managua

147,908 dollars

The Project in Detail

Actions to be taken

Strengthen the strategy of learning units for entrepreneurship and youth employment.

Develop technological skills in adolescents and youth to get the most of platforms for online training and digital marketing.

Create spaces for mentorship and reflection at entrepreneur level supported by organizations fostering entrepreneurship and innovation.

Promote digital entrepreneurship through an innovation laboratory to implement their digital marketing strategies.

Assess and monitor interventions of the pilot project.

Expected Results

Active involvement of adolescents and youth in learning units.

Audivisual innovation center fitted out and operating with all the minimum standards to deliver services to project recipients.

Adolescents and youth are implementing, at least, one of the skills acquired.

Training courses implemented through basic and advanced digital learning modules in the Youth 2030 platform.

Certification of young mentors that support adolescents and youth in the design and implementation of entrepreneurship initiatives.

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Collaborate with organizations that support innovation and entrepreneurship. Conduct an entrepreneurship course where ideas of innovative business will be presented. World Vision Nicaragua 49 Play video

We would like to thank all those who joined World Vision Nicaragua with their contribution to achieve our goal of building a brighter future for Nicaraguan children.

Partnerships and Partners

World Vision Offices

Germany, United States, Canada, Switzerland, Taiwan

Corporate partners

San Jerónimo bookstore, Jardín bookstore and distribution company, Invercasa, Ibex (partners), Grupo Roble, movie theaters, Publicom, Polaris, JVS, Little Caesars Pizza, Gonper bookstores, Ivania Mejía transportation services, Connect International, Inspiro Relia (partners), Casavision, Santa Martha coffee farm.

Partner organizations

UNI, UCA, UPOLI, Univalle, UNAN-Managua, Pierre & Marie Curie school, Teletón, Red Cross, Los Pipitos, Raleigh International, Habitat for Humanity, Scout Association of Nicaragua, Baptist Church of God, and Catholic church.

Partner networks

Global Network of Religions for Children, NicaSalud Network Federation, RASNIC, National Network of Volunteers.

Summary of Investments

We would like to thank all our partners and allies in 2022 that contributed to maximize our impact in the benefit of children and adolescents in Nicaragua. We would also like to thank all those individuals who made a personal contribution.

$8,187,894 Sponsorship

$16,173,885

(WF and BHA) Grant Funds

$1,750,742

Private Funds

(including PNS, other PNS, local private funds, cash donations, GIK, SIK)

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Sponsorship Grant Funds

Private Funds

$26,112,521 Total

Volunteering

Objective

The strategic objective of World Vision’s Volunteering program is to foster public commitment and people’s participation through national and local level volunteering actions aimed at improving living conditions of children and adolescents.

Our

impact through VOLUNTEERING

We would like to thank all the volunteers who have joined World Vision’s mission

969

Volunteers at the national level

825 Community volunteers

36,500 Hours contributed

We are an organization that promotes volunteering and gives youth the opportunity to participate and contribute to actions in the benefit of child protection.

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144 Social volunteers

17,280 Hours contributed

Volunteering initiatives are promoted together with partners in other organizations, and with communities, schools, universities, churches, individuals or companies and corporations.

Requirement

Having time available

2 3 Being of legal age

Fill out the form at: www.worldvision. org.ni/voluntariado

Global Campaign

As part of the global campaign to eliminate violence against children, in 2022, World Vision Nicaragua launched the child protection campaign “Spaces for Tenderness” that showed the importance of positive discipline and parenting with tenderness, either at home, school, church or anywhere else. Spaces for Tenderness was an initiative aimed at society at large, with a special focused on parents, caregivers, schoolteachers, faith-based leaders, Sunday schoolteachers, adolescents and youth willing to transform their family relationships and interpersonal relationships keeping in mind respect, empathy, and especially tenderness.

For this campaign, once again, World Vision Nicaragua joined Gabriela Narvaez, certified specialist in Positive Discipline. She was accompanied by World Vision Nicaragua’s Child Protection specialists.

The campaign lasted two months and every week she presented a live conversation in Channel 14 together with children, adolescents, parents, schoolteachers and religious leaders.

1,316,843

Total reach of World Vision campaigns

Reach of posts on social media

229,267

Reach in FY22

120,924

Total number of followers by the end of FY22

355,021 Campaign videos reproduced on social media

World Vision in Central America

What we do?

World Vision Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador are part of the Partnership of World Vision International, one of the largest humanitarian aid organizations across the globe that, with Christian principles and values, works for the well-being of children. World Vision has been present in Central America for 46 years. Since 1975, it has been present in 358 municipalities and 10,216 churches with which WV works in partnership in Central America.

Protección, Par ticipación e Incidencia

Protección, Par ticipación e Incidencia

In order to fulfil our promise with children and adolescents, at World Vision we address different urgent issues in the countries of the Central American isthmus to ensure protection and well-being of the most vulnerable children, their families, and communities.

WASH y Cambio Climático

Educación Salud y Nutrición Respuesta Humanitaria

WASH y Cambio Climático

Educación Salud y Nutrición Respuesta Humanitaria Movilidad Humana y Migración

Empleabilidad, Emprendedurismo y Desarrollo Económico

In the last year we have benefited:

8,383,081 Children

10,216 Partner churches

190,078 Sponsored children

358 Municipalities With presence in:

Intervention Areas