Ticuantepe

Marc Valentin

Site Coordinator

Gioconda-Computer Teacher and Law Student is a Bridges Double Success Story

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 4 August, 2010 - 16:09

Gioconda, who is from Los Lopez in Masaya, is accomplishing an amazing feat for a young woman from a community in Nicaragua where much of the populace does not even complete elementary school. Through the educational scholarship program from Bridges, Gioconda has almost obtained not one, but two university degrees.

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A Salute to Las Perlas' Community Leaders: They Made a Dream Come True

Submitted by Mary Jane Fales on 1 July, 2010 - 12:15

As Bridges celebrates the opening of the new Las Perlas School in Ticuantepe, we would like to highlight some champions for this project: the community leaders. It was thanks to their vision, drive and leadership that brought the dream of this local educational facility to reality. These individuals formed the committee that fought for their community to get this three room school that will now educate upwards of 120 children from pre-school through 2nd grade. read more

Kyla Gallagher

International Volunteer Coordinator

Kyla loves shoveling cement, hula hooping, and eating peanut butter. Mastering the art of Nicaraguan slang is her current mission in life.

Tomas Rene Coulson

Community Program Coordinator

Tomas Rene is a trained psychologist and experienced teacher, two great benefits to the Ticuantepe team. Tomas spends his free time with his daughter in Leon and studying English.

Ticuantepe

Ticuantepe

Bridges to Community has been operating in Ticuantepe since 2002. We have constructed one school and over 150 houses for families living in material poverty in four of the eighteen communities in the municipality. We expect to expand and diversify our impact by implementing various community projects in all eighteen of the communities in the municipality of Ticuantepe. Our philosophy for designing and implementing projects is to work through and with local leadership and citizens at the grassroots level.

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