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The Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association builds bridges of friendship between Bainbridge Island in Washington State and Ometepe, Nicaragua

Don’t miss our 2024 auction!

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Since the 1990s Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association (BOSIA) has been sending a delegation of students to Nicaragua. We are raising funds to support established BOSIA programs such as student delegation projects, scholarships for Ometepe college students and special needs education for the deaf on 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.

April 27, 2024 from 5:30-8:00pm

Dinner from 6:00-7:00pm
Hyla Community Hall
7861 NE Bucklin Hill Road

Special Guests: Dora Gutierrez & Karla Varela

Tickets are $20 each. Please purchase tickets to RSVP by April 21.

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.

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