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
1999
With several delegations each year and increasingly more projects to keep track of, the Board decided to open an office on Ometepe. Dorita Gutierrez Traña was hired as office coordinator and she was aided in the logistics of getting set