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

To the South of Managua, Casa Canadiense has counterparts in the town of Niquinohomo (Department of Masaya), in rural areas around Mombacho Volcano (between the cities of Granada and Nandaime) and on the Island of Ometepe. 

Niquinohomo is a small town known as the birthplace of Sandino, Nicaragua's national hero. The Movimiento Comunal of Niquinohomo is Casa's longstanding partner with whom we have built seven community preschool buildings in the rural villages outside the town's centre.

 At the base of Mombacho Volcano, Casa has begun to work with the UCA Tierra y Agua, a union of land cooperatives (formed in the 1980s) who have turned to eco-tourism in order to survive as cooperatives and to improve the economic situation of the locals.

 On the Island of Ometepe, Casa Canadiense has worked with several local organizations including the Balgue community committee and the famous Finca Magdalena, as well as with the local community development institute, Red de Organizaciones Civiles de Ometepe, whose office is located in Moyogalpa, one of the main towns on the island.

Specific Projects in Pacific South Region

Casa Canadiense has several strong counterparts in Nicaragua's North.

 In the city of Esteli, one of Nicaragua's most vibrant rural centres, we actively support the work of FUNARTE, a mural painting and popular education organization that advocates for children's rights and the improvement of the quality of education in Nicaragua.

Since 2005, Casa Canadiense has been working with the Indigenous Council of Mozonte, a rural community that holds autonomous title to local land and forests that is located on the border with Honduras.

 Casa also works with the Cooperativa Guardianes del Bosque (or "GARBO" for short), located in the rural community of Penas Blancas, not far from El Cua in the Department of Jinotega. Nestled deep in Nicaragua's central mountains, these men and women have joined together to protect the important eco-system they inhabit as well as ensure that their community can support the economic and basic needs of its inhabitants. They are promoting community-based eco-tourism as an economic alternative that benefits all community members.

Specific Projects in Centre-North Region

Just in case one of our projects doesn't fit under the other categories, this is where you will find it filed!

Specific Projects in other regions