Teaching English on Ometepe
Sheila Kelley reports on her 2½-month stay on Ometepe, where she volunteered as an aide in high school English classes at two schools and was warmly embraced by her host families and the communities of La Flor and Los Angeles.
Small is beautiful: The clinics of Ometepe’s communities
Annie Lukins, one of two Bainbridge High School students on the 2009 Health Delegation, reports on the 10-day trip, during which delegates visited 12 clinics and hospitals. "What we discovered," she writes, "was a work force of nurses and doctors with outstanding fortitude."
Lost, among friends—a sister schools’ story
Delegations from Beacon Hill International School have been traveling to Balgüe for eight years, building a relationship with the primaria there and with its teachers, administrators, students, and families. This fall the first delegation from Balgüe is visiting Beacon Hill.
Finding friendship on Ometepe
Sean Willerford, a 2010 student delegate, reports on his third trip to Ometepe, where he stayed in the town of San Jose del Sur, about half an hour by bus from Moyogalpa.
2009 community projects
In 2009, the Sister Islands Association and communities on Ometepe collaborated on projects ranging from latrine repair to providing funding for musical instrument restoration and purchases at 36 island schools.
2000
With an office staff now firmly rooted in Altagracia, BOSIA projects and delegation proliferated: “Geek” delegations worked on bringing free e-mail to the office and local schools. Teenaged “Hep Cats” swung their partners to salsa and taught swing dance to