In the capital city of Managua, where Casa Canadiense is located, we work with various community groups across the city. These groups represent poor and marginalized neighbourhoods (or "barrios" as they call them in Nicaragua) who form neighbourhood committees in order to improve the quality of life for the inhabitants. Much of our work is concentrated in an area known as Reparto Schick and involves local women who run community preschools for local children.

Just outside Managua, in the municipality of El Crucero, Casa Canadiense has initiated a very exciting partnership with the surrounding rural communities, beginning with the community of Santa Julia.  Casa Canadiense also works with community groups and organizations in the city of Leon, located north of Managua, along the Pacific Coast. In Leon, Casa Canadiense has a long-standing relationship with the women of the Anexo a la Villa 23 de Julio who run an after-school program for local children and Las Tias ("The Aunties"), an organization dedicated to improving the lives of working, abandoned and abused children in Leon.

 Specific Projects in Managua & Occidente Region