The Student Delegation and Board invite you to join our Spring Dinner and Fundraiser!
May 3, 2025
6:00pm-7:00pm Dinner and Fundraiser
7:00pm-8:00pm Entertainment
Hyla Community Hall 7861 NE Bucklin Hill Road
Special Guests from Ometepe: Dora Gutierrez & Karla Varela
Tickets are $25 each. Please purchase tickets to RSVP by April 26.
Since 1986 Bainbridge Island has had a long term, sustainable relationship with the people of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. We are raising funds to support established Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Islands programs such as student delegation projects, water projects, university scholarships for Ometepe students, and special needs education for the deaf and blind population of Ometepe. Please join us in supporting our sister island.
Can’t attend? If you’d like to support our programs but are unable to attend the auction, please click the button below to make a tax-deductible donation.
Apply to be the next office assistant!
Join BOSIA, Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Organization, for a life-changing opportunity. The office assistant supports the BOSIA mission of extending transnational friendship with the Nicaraguan community on the island of Ometepe.
New focus on Ometepe coffee
After many years of work, coffee grown on Ometepe is now recognized as a distinct type because of the environment where it is grown. The "denomination of origin" — similar to the way wine and cheese marketing is restricted to specific geographic areas — is intended to boost marketing efforts.
Our History
For more than 30 years, we have constructed schools and water systems together, learned each others’ languages and customs, and been welcomed into each others’ homes.
Much has changed since 1986, when Kim Esterberg first set foot on Ometepe in search of a sister island and Moyogalpa Mayor Diego Martinez told Kim that what Ometepe needed most was respect. What has not changed is the vision of a long-term, sustainable relationship—a mutually beneficial partnership of equals. This mutuality of respect is what we hold true to as we continue on into our second quarter-century.