News

Building New School Classrooms for Las Conchitas

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 31 January, 2012 - 16:41

In January, nineteen IT professionals from the District of Columbia area were warmly welcomed by Las Conchitas community in Masaya as they began working together to construct two critically needed classrooms serving the children of six surrounding communities. The volunteers had made a commitment to not only to raise money for the school but also to travel to Nicaragua and physically start building it. Another group will complete it in February. read more

BRIDGES EXPANDS INTO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC!

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 8 November, 2011 - 11:33

Executive director Kevin Mestrich announced that Bridges to Community will be opening up a new volunteer operation in the Dominican Republic in the region bordering Haiti next year. The first new country expansion in almost 20 years came after the board of directors reaffirmed in 2010 that Bridges to Community is an international organization whose mission is to serve where are services are most needed. The Dominican Republic/ Haitian border area was selected after eight months of study and research by the board’s appointed New Country Task Force. read more

4th Annual DC Fundraiser for Bridges’ Nicaraguan Programs Is Huge Success

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 18 October, 2011 - 13:44

A Bridges to Community volunteer group from the DC area IT community raised a record breaking amount of money at the Fourth Annual “Raise the Roof” Cocktail Party and Fundraiser held in October. More than 150 tickets were sold to the affair and over $60,000 was raised by the DC group to go toward meeting their goals to fund the building of an addition onto a school in Masaya as well for new homes for Nicaraguan families.

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BTC Canada Raises $20,000 at Fourth Annual “Rock the House”

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 13 September, 2011 - 12:44

Events

On August 21, Bridges to Community Canada successfully kicked off a five year campaign to raise one million dollars with the goal to open a completely new community in Nicaragua. For the fourth year in a row, the Canadian group hosted the fundraiser in the beautiful old barn in Dundas, Ontario with Bridges’ board member Rick Bauman and his wife Sadie Bauman organizing the benefit. read more

Bridges Breaks Ground for Los Lopez School and Library in Masaya!

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 17 August, 2011 - 13:19

The children of the community of Los Lopez in Masaya are the lucky recipients of not only new school classrooms but a library stocked with brand new books and a kitchen to make them healthy lunches. Thanks to Bridges to Community donors who are committed to education through access to libraries and improved school facilities, the dream of this Nicaraguan community is coming true. read more

Community News

Building New School Classrooms for Las Conchitas

Bridges Breaks Ground for Los Lopez School and Library in Masaya!

Good Morning Siuna! Radio Connects Bridges’ Communities

Communication in Nicaragua is not always easy. In many remote areas of the country, there is no phone service, no cell reception, no internet, no television, no newspapers or even a convenient road for transport. Yet the local communities have found means to connect. In the Siuna region, radio is their link to the broader world.

Farm families that live hours outside the “big town” of Siuna, all have transistor radios that are on 24 hours a day. The farmers go out to their fields every day with the radios slung over their shoulders and placed near by as they work the land. The local university, URRICAN, transmits radio programming from a small building on campus that was built by Bridges’ volunteers a decade ago. Local meetings, happenings in various communities, and opportunities for people to talk to one another are all part of this essential daily information sharing.