This is my first blog post. My name is Jason and I am a current intern in the Waves of Hope program located in Manzano #1 in Chinandega, Nicaragua. Waves of Hope is a Canadian based non profit organization founded by Jamie Collum and Ben Orton and Earl Cahill, that […]
Waves of Hope quietly celebrated its third anniversary this week. I remember the early days of Waves of Hope, coming into a community as strangers but being accepted as family right away. Having little to no experience in development work, we were motivated by the fact that we had the […]
What initially started out as a women’s cooperative making braceletsout of cloth string, has blossomed in to a sustainable business and income for local women. A Waves of Hope volunteer a few years back brought the simple skill of bracelet making via a few instructional books to share with the […]
Leaving Manzano Numero Uno after three months of volunteering, I couldn’t believe how quickly the time had flown by. Perhaps it was the different pace of campo living that affected my sense of time: everyday we would get up just after dawn and go to sleep before 10 o’clock, our […]
It’s been almost two weeks now since I woke up early in the morning, when the roosters started making rooster sounds, packed the last of my things and left the lovely green house in El Manzano Uno that I had called my home for the last nine weeks. I cried, […]
