My time in Nicaragua ended up to be a wonderful experience. I went down there with a group of Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Students from Yale. Over the week we saw 120 children at La Escuelita. La Escuelita is a school in Managua that is for children in a poor neighborhood that borders the large oriental market (the largest open air market in Central America). Though public education is free, students are required to buy uniforms, books and supplies. Because these things are expensive many children in this neighborhood do not go to school. La escuelita offers these children a free education (no uniforms required). This was the nursing schools third consecutive year going down there to offer health care to the students at la escuelita.
Nicaragua, though very poor, was beautiful. The people are lively and poetic and buildings are vibrantly painted. I hope you enjoy the photos. All the photos of the churches and vibrant buildings are in Granada one of the old capitals of the country, and the ones of the kids and clinical days are at the school.
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