Message from Officer in ChargeCountry Program Manager
We bid farewell to the year 2023 with a heart full of gratitude to God for the blessings received, for the challenges we were able to successfully overcome and for the lessons learned that strengthened our daily work in favor of the integral wellbeing of the most vulnerable children in Nicaragua.
We recognize the commitment and hard work done by our collaborators, who, together with more than 700 volunteers, volunteers and community leaders, actively participate in the care and protection of children in the 381 communities where our programs and projects are implemented.
We thank the Ministry of the Family, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Municipal Mayors for the successful coordination of work plans that allowed us to collaborate with national efforts for the welfare of children. We thank our International Support Offices, Partners, Sponsors, Donors and Advisors for their unconditional support, which allowed us to directly or indirectly contribute to the integral wellbeing of 2,368,202 children, adolescents and youth.
Through our Spirituality, Protection and Education Technical Program, children learned to be more resilient, strengthened their relationship with God, adopted the habit of reading, writing and critical thinking, which improved their academic performance.
Our Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience Technical Program made important investments to improve access to safe water and sanitation for children. It strengthened capacities in schools, communities and families to adopt hygienic habits that prevent diseases. This program fostered the development of young people’s capacities to design and develop new enterprises that support the generation of family income and the consolidation of their personal life purpose.
In addition, it contributed to the communities’ adoption of new climate-smart and climate-resilient agriculture techniques, influenced the protection of natural resources and strengthened community risk management in the face of natural phenomena.
Through the Sponsorship Program, the rights of children to health, education, participation and recreation were promoted at the local level. Local capacities for the care and protection of children and adolescents were strengthened by supporting the self-management of micro-projects that address community needs and allow for long-term sustainability.
In 2023, World Vision, committed to caring for the environment that God created, launched the Greening the Dry Corridor Initiative at the Central American level, with which we aspire to 2030, to contribute to 10 million inhabitants of the Central American Dry Corridor to leave a green footprint in the world, protecting its natural resources and mitigating the impact of climate change for children.
World Vision Nicaragua remains firm in its commitment to continue implementing programs and projects focused on the integral development of Nicaragua’s most vulnerable children, partnering and collaborating so that together we can achieve “for every child life in all its fullness, our prayer for every heart, the will to make this possible”.
We welcome the year 2024 with faith and hope, entrusting our plans to God, recognizing our call to serve Nicaraguan children, families and communities.
Officer in Charge
Who are we?
World Vision is an international Christian humanitarian aid organization, focused on the integral well-being of the most vulnerable children and adolescents in the country. In Nicaragua we have 34 years of continuous work, promoting sustainable development projects through promotion and programming in four main areas:
• Child protection
• Education and life skills
• Water, sanitation and hygiene
• Environmental protection and climate change resilient agriculture
Mission Vision
To follow Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, 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 boy and girl, life in all its fullness, our prayer for every heart, the will to make this possible.
Secure Organization
We are an organization of zero tolerance to all forms of violence against children, adolescents and adult beneficiaries whom we serve.
We have a Safeguarding Policy with nine mandatory protection standards for World Vision staff, donors, sponsors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, visitors, partners, security guards and affiliates.
Our Strategic Objective
To contribute to more than one million 300 thousand vulnerable girls, boys and adolescents experiencing positive, tender and peaceful relationships in their families and communities, contributing to their development and leading participation in the framework of children’s rights.
Girls and boys experience the love of God and their neighbor
Children are cared for, protected and participate
Boys and girls are educated for life
That their families and communities are resilient in the face of climate change and disasters
That they have access to water and basic sanitation
We see the well-being of children in a holistic way, through a healthy individual development, involving their physical and mental health, their social and spiritual dimensions, positive relationships and a context that provides security, social justice and participation in civil society.
Where we are?
9 16 381 700
Cities Municipalities
Communities and neighborhoods
34,355
Volunteers Sponsored girls and boys
Beyond our response to emergencies, World Vision Nicaragua permanently contributes to more than 225,000 people, directly, so they have a better quality of life.
We have the support of 700 volunteers committed to the integral wellbeing of the most vulnerable children in the country.
Chinandega
Jinotega
Estelí
León
Managua
Matagalpa Boaco
Carazo
Rivas
Regular Programming
Spirituality, Protection and Education
Context
In Nicaragua, the 2023 country agenda aimed at promoting and developing inclusive, equitable and quality education to promote better opportunities for Nicaraguan children, adolescents and adults.
It also contemplated the prevention of violence by incorporating schools of values, promoting equitable and responsible relationships.
Our technical program Spirituality, Protection and Education executes projects in which promotes the creation of a family and community environment that has a positive impact on the holistic development of children and adolescents, through spiritual growth, comprehensive protection and the strengthening of educational quality.
Our program works in strategic partnerships with state institutions, churches and community-based organizations, so that children, adolescents, and young people feel loved by God, are socio-emotionally resilient and live in protective environments.
Components
• Spirituality: They experience the love of God and their neighbor.
• Protection: They are cared for, protected and participatory.
• Education: They are educated for life.
Contribute to ensuring that children have access to quality education at the different stages of their growth, developing their essential skills to exploit their potential and vocation.
• Increase in primary school girls and boys who can read.
• Increasing the education and skills of adolescents and young people
That girls, boys, adolescents and their families may experience God’s love and strengthen their spiritual growth.
• Increase of girls and boys who have positive relationships in their families and communities.
That children and adolescents can be cared for, protected and participate as subjects of law.
• Increase in children protected from violence.
Revitalizing the global partnership for development sustainable.
Our Methodologies and Models
Godly Play Our Daddy
It is a methodology created for families to learn to pray while playing. It is sought that let each member of each family identify the meaning and purpose of his/her life, while strengthening, through tenderness, his/her relationship with God, with himself/herself, with others, and with nature.
Opening Paths of Protection and Tenderness
This methodology contributes in a playful and reflective way to girls, boys and adolescents assertively identify the various risk factors of the environment and strengthen their selfprotection mechanisms.
It is a methodology of spiritual direction and growth that helps children and adolescents to live an experience of spiritual approach with God, through reflective thinking, artistic expression and play.
Parenting with Tenderness
This methodology is aimed at healing the human pain caused by violence and proposes tenderness as a balm, community solidarity to share with children and adolescents in the processes of socialization and training.
I Read, Comment, Imagine and Believe
It is a model that contributes to the development of comprehensive reading and life skills of girls and boys, encouraging spaces that bring them together to develop a taste for reading and creativity in conjunction with mothers and fathers as multipliers of the reading animation.
Unlock Literacy
Activities that promote the literacy of children and adolescents. Promotes and It takes advantage of the participation of various members of the community to support children’s reading, according to their need and context.
Testimony
“I like coming to the reading clubs because here they teach us to read, we have fun, We do dynamics, we play and we also do crafts.
Thanks to reading I have been able to be the best student at the municipal level.
Luis, 12 años. Asistente de los clubes de lectura comunitarios.
“A mí me gusta venir a los clubes de lectura porque aquí nos enseñan a leer, nos divertimos, hacemos dinámicas, jugamos y también hacemos manualidades. Gracias a la lectura he podido ser el mejor estudiante a nivel municipal.
I consider it very important that children come to the reading corners because they help us a lot in our learning and that helps us in our school and helps us to have a better future”. Luis, 12 years old.
Yo considero muy importante que los niños vengan a los rincones de lectura porque nos ayudan mucho en nuestro aprendizaje y eso nos ayuda en nuestra escuela y nos ayuda a tener un mejor futuro”, Luis 12 años
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Luis, 12 years old. Student of the reading clubs.
Components in figures
Spirituality Protection Education
girls and boys participated in spiritual nutrition spaces based on biblical stories and parables addressed by the Godly Play methodology, promoting values and contributing to children experiencing the love of God.
children and adolescents trained in various protection methodologies to strengthen the issues of self-protection, self-esteem, children’s rights, family interaction from the frame of values and assertive and empathic communication.
1,068
community and faith leaders trained in the Godly Play methodology to promote the spiritual nutrition of children from a playful and interactive approach.
adults participated in awareness-raising talks on Parenting with Tenderness, child protection from a biblical perspective and family integration tools for the emotional development of children and adolescents; these were facilitated in partnership with the Family Ministry and community churches.
11, 119 80,883 4,416 59,086 3,384 1,056
people in 18 communities participated in awareness-raising talks on the prevention of child labor.
vulnerable girls, boys and adolescents accessed playful, creative and friendly for learning by equipping 179 rural and urban schools of primary education.
girls, boys and teenagers strengthened their reading-writing, critical thinking and reading comprehension in 265 community reading clubs.
3,790
girls and boys have adopted the habit of reading and writing, through the Strategy of Reading Animation, in which 736 principals and teachers of primary education as a result of coordination with the Ministry of Education.
885
faith and community leaders acquired knowledge to establish safe spaces for education in emergency situations, special attention and humanitarian disaster relief mechanisms. Likewise, they received a supply of recreational materials for the habilitation of these spaces.
Social, Environmental and Economic Resilience
Context
Due to its geographic location, Nicaragua is susceptible to a variety of natural and anthropogenic environmental impacts. In addition, the impact of climate change has had adverse effects on watersheds and agriculture, a situation that is especially aggravated in the regions located within the country’s Dry Corridor.
In its territorial response planning, World Vision Nicaragua considers various environmental scenarios in order to develop methodologies that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and contribute to the preservation of natural resources.
Nuestro programa técnico Resiliencia Social, Ambiental y Económica de Niñas, Niños, Adolescentes, Jóvenes y sus Familias implementa proyectos que facilitan el acceso a agua potable, saneamiento e higiene a nivel comunitario, escolar y en centros de salud. Así mismo, inciden en la adopción de buenas prácticas agropecuarias, obras de conservación de suelo y agua para la construcción de medios de vida resilientes al cambio climático. También, empodera a las comunidades sobre prácticas de gestión de riesgo que aportan a la protección de la niñez ante efectos del cambio climatico. Además, promueve el emprendimiento para que las familias incrementen y diversifiquen sus ingresos.
Componentes
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• Climate-smart agriculture
• Risk Management
• Entrepreneurship
Ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting agriculture.
That they have access to safe water and basic sanitation
That their families and communities are resilient in the face of climate change and disasters.
Adopt urgent measures to combat climate change and its effects.
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
We
contribute to these aspirations as follows:
We improve sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation, based on analysis of risks and effects of climate change, with the participation of the most vulnerable children, their families, and communities.
Increasing the number of children who have access to water and basic sanitation.
Increasing the number of families that use positive practices for the environment, especially for the care of surface and groundwater.
We implement activities that promote nutritional well-being and diversification in production at the household and community level.
We contribute with capacity building to community members and leaders on Disaster Risk Management issues, including cross-cutting issues such as equality, protection of children in emergencies and psycho-emotional care
Nuestras Metodologías y Modelos
WASH
It is an integrated Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project model that has as main actions the management and execution of projects for access to drinking water and sanitation in communities, schools and health centers, among others. With this, we seek to improve the results of child welfare, health, nutrition, and education. of childhood, health, nutrition, and education.
Youth Ready Risk Management
This methodology provides families with the essential knowledge to develop a response plan for various natural phenomena. It serves as a tool for the population to identify vulnerabilities and establish action plans to protect their lives in situations of risk due to geophysical or environmental impacts.
The Youth Ready methodology was designed to empower vulnerable young people and adolescents in the age range of 16 to 24 years. It is a comprehensive methodology that allows them to motivate themselves to create a life plan, formulate business plans that drive them to achieve their dreams and goals through the entrepreneurship module.
Climate-Smart Agriculture
(Farms with agroecosystems resilient to climate change)
Promotion of agroecosystems with a diversity of agricultural practices, with a view to greater resilience to the negative effects of climate change, improving the productive recovery of both soil, water, forest, and the diversity of food that contribute to the sustainable environmental development of families and the community.
Family, School and Healthy Community (FECSA)
Family, School and Healthy Community (FECSA Spanish acronyms), is a methodology used in the water and sanitation projects of World Vision to promote local development and community management through the strengthening of capacities in promoters, community leaders and community in general. Its objective is to improve knowledge in the promotion of hygiene and habit change for vulnerable communities and children. Children and adolescents have a leading role in this methodology.
Components in figures
WASH FECSA
in the community in the community
5,975 5,773
People have access to drinking water through the construction and/or rehabilitation of water systems in 13 communities in the country. These actions were carried out with the support of the community and municipal mayors.
people adopted new hygienic and sanitation practices in their homes, contributing to a healthier and more sustainable environment in their communities
En las escuelas
people use decent hygiene sanitation services, through the construction of biodigesters and latrines in 20 communities of the country. These initiatives were developed with the support of the community and municipal mayors.
in schools and Health Centers
Children and adolescents trained in personal hygiene, proper handling from the garbage, care of the environment and toilet of sanitary services.
Climate-smart agriculture
Risk Management
people from 71 communities trained in Disaster Risk Reduction Management and other social issues, which strengthen the capacity of community response to emergencies. This training process was carried out in coordination with the Integral Risk Management Unit- Disasters (IMGUR) of the Mayor’s Office of each municipality.
362 122 5,750 1,559 7,514
People attending 9 schools enjoy improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene with the construction and rehabilitation of water and sanitation infrastructure. Likewise, we worked in four health centers
206 4,579
producers diversified their plots by incorporating vegetables, citrus fruits, basic grains and musaceae to diversify the family diet. They were also trained in climate change, soil and water conservation and crop disease prevention.
Entrepreneurship
young people trained in the Youth Ready methodology in order to learn skills for employment, the use of the Canvas model and adopt soft skills.
young people developed their business plans and launched ventures where they applied the knowledge acquired during the training and improved their economic income.
Testimony
“In my case, since I am a single mother, I live with my son and my grandfather, these means of life that they give us to move forward have been a great help”,
Paula, 26 years old
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Paula, 26 years old. Nicaraguan farmer accompanied by Means of Livelihood
Sectoral Projects
Context Health
Health / Promotion, prevention and care for the containment and reduction of HIV
from
and Tuberculosis
a gender, equity and human rights approach.
HIV and tuberculosis epidemics have manifestations that are not only expressed in people’s health, but also in their behavior and quality of life, especially in children and adults in vulnerable situations. In Nicaragua there is a concentrated epidemic with higher prevalence in key populations, according to the Behavioral Surveillance Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health (MINSA, 2020).
The Global Fund, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the Country Coordinating Mechanism, sub-recipients executing funds and World Vision Nicaragua, principal recipient, carried out concrete actions to influence the containment and elimination of these epidemics.
The project Strengthening Nicaragua through prevention and health care to contain the HIV and Tuberculosis epidemic within a sustainable response, seeks to strengthen promotion, prevention, care and follow-up interventions aimed at key and vulnerable populations in geographic areas with the highest burden of Tuberculosis and HIV, from a gender, equity, human rights, ethnicity and non-discrimination approach.
Scope of the project
6
Sub-recipients execute the project. The Center for Health Research and Studies, Nicaraguan Association of positive people fighting for life, Damián Foundation and Nicaraguan Association of people with HIV AIDS (ASONVIHSIDA spanish acronyms).
13
cities and 37 municipalities served in tuberculosis prevention and treatment.
253,006 1, 684, 879
People treated at risk of contracting tuberculosis
10
cities and 25 municipalities served in primary and secondary prevention and treatment of HIV.
People at risk of contracting HIV.
Assistance to key populations in education and risk communication for healthy behavior changes through e-education.
The E-Educators program for HIV and Tuberculosis is implemented through 4 Sub Receptors (CIES, Damián Foundation, Association of positive people fighting for life and Nicaraguan Association of People with HIV - AIDS) with the support of the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Health to reach key populations and population in general through social networks in which, with interventions behavior change is sensitized to promote the adoption of healthy behaviors that allow to hold in and prevent the HIV and Tuberculosis epidemics.
The main objective of the program is: to educate, identify, reach and refer users for personalized follow-up and their effective linking to the different health services according to their needs.
Scope of e-education by 2023
545,280 1,467
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok and YouTube). Reach of the publications on the different digital platforms.
95,965
Facilities reached.
People attended and boarded online.
713
Affective references to the different health services.
Prevention of child labour
Context
It is a non-formal educational modality that provides comprehensive care to children under the age of 14 who live on farms or migrate with their families during the coffeecutting season.
The Educational Bridges provide a socioaffective, pedagogical, friendly, healthy and recreational space for the integral development of children and adolescents that favors their socialization and the strengthening of their self-esteem, as well as interaction through games, group dynamics oriented to the acquisition of life-long learning such as: comprehensive reading, mathematical calculation and logical thinking within the framework of knowledge and exercise of their rights.
Puentes Educativos
Implementation of Educational Bridges 2022-2023
During the 2022-2023 coffee break, in partnership with the Santa Martha farm, located in the Municipality of San Ramón, Matagalpa and the community of La Lima, was implemented Educational bridges where 160 children, adolescents and 191 mothers were assisted these were families from the surrounding areas and migrants from different parts of the country.
Objetive
To contribute to the protection and educational continuity of children and adolescents in the seasonal migration zone.
Different activities were developed during the coffee break period to contribute to the education, protection and spirituality of children, through the implementation of different Models and Methodologies that strengthen learning, self-care, self-esteem, personal growth and development of oral and written expression; such as Unlock Literacy, Opening Paths of Protection and Tenderness and Godly Play.
The Santa Martha coffee farm provided food (3 times), adequate and safe physical space to assist children, economic support to two facilitators and two caregivers, Christmas gift delivery and furniture to enable the Educational Bridge.
Multisectoral Response through Humanitarian Assistance
With the support of USAID and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the Multisectoral Response through Humanitarian Assistance project was implemented, which contributed to alleviating the suffering and damages caused by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in the homes of the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua.
The project focused on improving agricultural production in the rural households of vulnerable producers in the cities of Madriz, Jinotega and León, located in the country’s Dry Corridor. It also focused on increasing food security for vulnerable families in the target municipalities.
León, Madriz and Jinotega
123 communities of the country
June 2022 - October 31, 2024
Food Support 16, 000 people 4, 000 households
The project focused on meeting the food needs of the most vulnerable households in the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua through:
Food package deliveries by Food Vouchers: Rice, beans, salt, oil, chicken, sardines, eggs, corn and oats.
The estimated value of each food package was equivalent to U$104
4,000 families benefited with food packagesos
Emergency Response
Agricultural Assistance
The project contributed with agricultural assistance generating food sustainability in the different communities.
This was made possible thanks to:
• Delivery of certified corn and bean seeds
• Delivery of vegetable seeds for the creation of vegetable gardens relatives
• Delivery of tool kits for the elaboration of family gardens (Machete, rake, drill bar, shovel, hoe, watering can)
• Delivery of fertilizer
• Delivery of organic fertilizer
• Delivery of backpack pump for foliar
• Exchange of experiences with agricultural promoters
• Soil analysis of the benefited communities
• Implementation of improved agricultural practices through trainings, making use of teaching materials such as brochures and handouts to agricultural promoters
Project exceeded the goal by a 62.4%
Testimony
Thank God and thanks to the project we have had that benefit and that luck, I have felt very happy, it has helped me too much. We live in a community where production is very hard because of the drought, sometimes a lot of water in the winter.”
Deyvi, Cerro Colorado, El Sauce.
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Deyvi, Farmer accompanied the Project Multisectoral Response through food assistance and agriculture.
Our CA4 cluster/bloc projects
Initiative Greening The Dry Corridor
The Central American Dry Corridor is a region highly affected by climate change, experiencing intense droughts and irregular rains. These adverse climatic conditions, combined with unsustainable agricultural practices, have generated significant challenges such as:
Therefore, as World Vision we propose to take climate action with the Greening the Dry Corridor initiative, with which we commit to impacting 10 million inhabitants of the Dry Corridor by 2030, who will leave a green footprint in the world, protecting their natural resources and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Pillars of work:
Work together with governments, the humanitarian community, OSFLs, private initiative, communities, and families. SDGs to which the initiative contributes:
What is life like for a girl in the Central American Dry Corridor?
Christian Discipleship for Children
Context
Christian Discipleship is a spiritual nutrition project that seeks for children, adolescents and young people (NAJ spanish acronym) to experience the love of God and share it with their peers.
Children, adolescents and young people are affected in their integral development by fragile contexts that deny them the experience of God’s love and that of their neighbors.
The project focuses its attention on the barriers or factors that prevent children from enjoying a full coexistence with their families and with God.
The project is being developed in Asia, Africa and in 4 countries of the Central American region, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as a response to the social, economic, environmental problems and the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the stability and integral development of families and communities.
Christian Discipleship for Children
What is expected from the project?
That children and adolescents may experience God’s love in their homes, church, and community.
Therefore, it is essential that:
• Mothers, fathers and caregivers support the spiritual development of adolescent girls, boys and young people in a caring environment.
• Adolescent girls, boys and young people grow in their faith through the experience of a meaningful life purpose and harmonious relationships.
• Churches and confessional organizations bring girls, adolescent boys and young people closer to the Kingdom of God, mobilizing resources to promote their integral development.
The 3 Pilares fundamental pillars that it addresses are:
Mothers, fathers and caregivers so that they can accompany the integral development of adolescent girls, boys and young people within an environment of tenderness.
Girls and boys so that they can experience the meaning of faith, their life and harmonious relationships.
Churches and Faith-based organizations (FBO), so that they can bring children, adolescents and young people closer to the Kingdom of God through the processes of Child-friendly Discipleship.
As a GOAL to reach: The project will have a duration of 5 years (2022-2026)
Nuestros socios
• CEPAD
• Baptist Convention of Nicaragua
• Intra-Church Center for Theological Studies and Social
• Base Ecclesial Communities
• Church of God
• Churches accompanied by SOS Children’s Villages
• Educational Pastoral Managua
• Educational Pastoral Matagalpa
• Churches of Orinoco / Pearl Lagoon
• Missionary Childhood
250, 000 2,500 9,000
girls and boys religious leaders parents and caregivers
Testimony
“When I narrate these biblical parables, I feel something beautiful because God is close to me”
Hillary, 9 years old
Narrator of Biblical parables Godly Play
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Hillary, 9 years old. Narrator of Biblical parables Godly Play.
World Vision in Central America
What do we do?
World Vision Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador belong to the Fellowship of World Vision International, one of the largest humanitarian aid and development organizations in the world that, with Christian principles and values, works for the welfare of children. World Vision has been present in Central America since 1975.
To fulfill our promise to children and adolescents in World Vision we work on different urgent issues for the countries of the Central American bloc, to ensure the protection and welfare of the most vulnerable children, their families and their community.
Protección, Par ticipación e Incidencia
y Cambio Climático
Educación Salud y Nutrición
Respuesta Humanitaria
Movilidad Humana y Migración
Thanks to our partners, donors and allies for their contribution to our work in favor of the most vulnerable children.
