“Once you stop growing, you start dying; not physically, but spiritually.”-Fr. Wasson

Nicaragua

Index

Our Directors Letter 2

I. Introduction 3

II. Current Status 4

III. Capacity 8

IV. Goals 8

V. General Report 10

Reportes por Casa 13

Casa San Jorge 13

Casa Asís 18

Casa Santiago 22

Casa Guadalupe 27

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Dear Family,

The year 2006 was not only a year of positive changes for NPH - Nicaragua butalso a year that brought sadness to all of us; we all heart felt the death of ourbeloved Fr. Wasson; we all miss his unconditional love and profound philosophywhich must remain and should be passed on to our little ones…that is his legacy.

We consolidated a solid supportive team of qualified people to help with ourchildren's everyday life problems; we called it “the advising committee”. Thiscommittee is involved with our kids' simple decisions to the choosing of theirtechnical or professional careers; this committee also assists them in the transi-tion of living and studying in Managua. We now have three homes in Managuafor our older students; two houses for our girls and one for our boys. We believethat moving them to Managua and new challenges will help them change intomore independent, responsible individuals.

The children and staff are very excited about the acquisition of our new propertyin Santa Teresa, Carazo. It is 45 minutes south west of Managua; this will give usthe ability to find competent people who better care for our children's needs.Our children will also enjoy a cooler climate.

I can only say that NPH-Nicaragua is moving toward a better, safer place and thischange could only be possible to the unconditional dedication of our personneland immense efforts of our children. None of this could be possible without thesupport or our benefactors, friends and our NPHI directors.

I will like to close with a phrase Fr. Wasson once told me “It is incredible all youcan do in your life time, if you just do a little bit each time”

Marlon VelasquezNational Director NPH Nicarauga

Introduction

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I. Introduction

Nicaraguans children and youngsters are growing up in very inadequate envi-ronment of poverty and abuses. These situations give them an uncertain futurefor their families and put at risk their communities and society itself. Their familiesand they find themselves vulnerable to psychosocial and economical problems.These kids and youngsters need especial protection of ONG's which could support them and give them an integral personal assistance for their physicaland metal development furthermore that these institutions promote, defendand protect their rights and welfare.

Nuestros pequeños Hermanos - Nicaragua (NPH - Nicaragua) considers thatthese children and youngsters are people who belong to a society and have rightsand the capacity to create, give opinions and help themselves in their better-ment of their lives that is why NPH - Nicaragua is taking action to help them withthe purpose to implement strategies and give them access to health, education,sports, nutrition, and incentives. NPH - Nicaragua provides them with works-hops, and renforcing families' roots and tides.

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II. Current Status

• Our children are attended as individuals. We make sure that their rights andobligations are taking into consideration. We provide them with the tools todevelop and participate in activities for the benefit of the family

• We emphasis and promote the development of their individual capacities andaptitudes of each one

• We pay attention to their own initiatives in the spirit of cooperation, compe-tency and development of personal skill

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1) Education:

• We have our Pre-school, primary and secondary programs

2) We implemented an early school interactive program for our younger childrenas young as two years. The objective is to develop their motor, language andeducation skills at our “Casa San Francisco de Asis”

3) We offer our older kids vocational school

• We also have workshops in domestic labor, computer skills, welding, electri-city, art, farming, folkloric dance, and music. We are certain that these skillswill help them and wake an interest in their studies and prepare them for anear future. Our main goal in Nuestros pequeños Hermanos- Nicaragua istheir education we are emphasizing and follow their studies thru evaluationswhich tell us their weakness as well as their aptitudes

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4) Games, recreational activities and sports

• We promote outdoor and other recreational activities as well as sports andother cultural programs as part of their personal growth. All of them partici-pate actively in folkloric dances, music or sports at local and national levels.As part of their recreational activities are the celebration of children's' day,their birthdays, parties, mass among others

• As part of their Christian formation they participate in baptisms, confirma-tions and other spiritual rituals.

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5) Nutrition

• We provide a balance diet so our children recover their nutrients and heath

6) Health

• We provide our children a general medical attention and place emphasis in our children with special medical attention to assure them a full and righttreatment

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III. Our Capacity

NPH - Nicaragua has the infrastructure for a capacity of 500 children. We nowattend 321 children from newborns to young adults

IV. Obtained Goals during 2006

Health

• Outpatients medical attention• Inpatient care in our clinic• Lab exams• Medical Treatments• Parasite control

Specialties

• Dentist• Eye doctor• Gynecology• Neurology• Psychology

Legal

• We named and registered 42 children and now they have their own identity

• 57 young sixteen year olds became of age to vote and got their legal IDs

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Graduates

• We proudly graduated 5 preschool kids, 32 finished primary school, 4 completedsecondary school and 15 are now attending University one in a MexicanUniversity. 11 young man are now in technical schools.

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V. General Report

2007 Nuestros pequeños Hermanos - Nicaragua plan

• Casa Asis will remain at its location

• Primary school stay open at Casa Santiago while school is built at the new property in Santa Teresa Carazo

• Our 1st secondary youngsters will attend school in Casa Santiago

• Our 2nd, 3rd secondary students will live at Casa Santiago but will study in public school on the island.

• Our students who finished their 3rd year will give their first year of family service.

• Our 5th secondary students will be moving to Managua to finish secondarystudies.

• Young man and girls who finished giving their year of service will attend theuniversity in Managua

• Teenagers older than 18 will take technical or vocational classes in Managuaat Don Bosco and CECNA technical schools

• After accomplishing their technical scools, the students will obtain an scholarship and six months of training will get a place to practice and workwhile at the same will be encouraged to re join society on their own with ourguidance and assistance

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Our New Property

Name : Finca San Miguel

Owner's Name : Ing. Julio Conrado

Lot size : 74 manzanas and 2,492.11 square varas

Location : In the municipality of Santa Teresa, Carazo Department. It is 45 minutes south west of Managua

Water : It has an artesian well which is not in used at the moment. We contacted a “the McGregor S.A“ drilling company. They said that there should be not problem to explode and drill a new well.

Electricity : The electric main poles run across the front of these property on the main Pan-American Highway

Climate : Cooler that the rest of hot Nicaragua

Price : US$400,000.00

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NPH Nicaraguan Leaders:

NPH-Nicaragua is taking action to form leaders to take responsibilities with theirNPH family, they are our future directors. They must have special qualities andlove for their brothers and sisters

Financial Support

Financial Scholarships will be given to all our young man and woman to studytechnical school careers or attend a higher education career.

Young teens who for special circumstances must leave our family and would liketo continue with their studies, NPH will help them financially. Their familiesmust provide their school records and receipts for reimbursement.

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Casa San Jorge, our Main Office

Administration office:

This office is in charge of all the budgeting and financial controls as well as thebookkeeping of the monies.

Achievements

• Updated all information with Nicaraguan IRS.• Better qualified personnel for the use of computer accounting program.• Consolidation of knowledge of accounting system.• Better management of foreign exchange currency• Order of all active accounts. • Updated all financial reports for 2006.• More frequent check ups of petty cash boxes.• More out and ingoing information with NPH Mexico.

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Future Goals:

• Keep updated accounting reports• Train personnel in accounting more fully • Clarify and revise catalog• Update all inventories• Index card all medicines and hygiene articles• Re group by department all inventory items• Create a purchasing department• Create an annual budget in a more detailed information

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Sponsorship Department

We have an updated Database of all our children and sponsors. Our childrenkeep answering all mail sent by their godparents.

Achievements:

• We have been able to respond about 85% of all request and sent them infor-mation

• We now have 85 children histories as well as each child's photo. We registeredall children who left our NPH family

• We have been able to celebrate birth-days every month

• We sent and made 1,176Christmas cards to USA, Europeand Latin-Americans sponsors

• There is a better communica-tion between our office and theother offices as a result wehave new sponsors for ourchildren

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Weaknesses

• We need qualified staff who know and write English to expedite letters andhistories translations

• There is no one specifically dedicated to the sponsorship department

Goals

• Update intranet• Keep an outgoing communication with all of our offices • Inform about our children's progress in a monthly bases• Incentive • Encourage our children to write more often to their godparents

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Achievements

• 61 teens became of age (16) and were able to vote this past election; they nowhave their ID

• We baptized 202 children, 140 celebrated their first communion and 108 were confirmed

• We were able to have “Los Pipitos” (children's hospital) see 10 of our childrenevery month. Thanks to “Fundacion Liliane from Holland”

Difficulties

• Lack of documentation of the minor and his/ her relative slows down our legalregistration of the child

• Most of our kids don't come back after they take their vacation home.

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Casa Asis

Casa Asis is the home of our 34 little ones. Seven joined our family this past year.The ages are from one to eight year of age. The few ones that were supposed tobe moved to the island stayed for the volcano possible eruption.

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Projects finished during 2006

• Rebuilt our babies home and a new small office was completed and additionalstorage room was also completed our younger ones now have a new bedroom.

• We also fixed a few roof leaks• Completed our recreational room for our kids with more books, paint and

games• A new washer• Purchase a few cows• Purchase of chicks• Installation of fans in the older boys dorm

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• Our farm now is growing banana trees, potatoes and papaya• Our workers now have their services• And our cows now also have a new pond • We also purchased pigs• A new water cistern is now in place• Our child care workers went to several child care seminars

Especial Events

• Praying every Thursday• Special mass in honor of San Francis of Asis• Easter celebration• Virgin Maria celebration• Halloween party• Graduation of 8 or of little ones• Some special children attended physical therapies in Managua

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Difficulties

• Overload of work and few people to attend it• A more powerful electric generator• Fuel got to expensive to supply our electric generator• Loosing of our land due to the lake high tide• Need of more water piping for irrigation• Distance between of two babies homes

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Casa Santiago

This is where 300 of our children call home. Along with the children's homes,our primary and secondary schools are located here, as well as sport fields forthe children to play on, and gardens for them to help tend.

Our Achievements of year 2006

• We came up with an excellent evacuation plan and moved all of our childrento main land when Conception Volcano shot out ash and rock

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• The in integration of younger kids to different workshops• A new chore groups were formed• A larger group of kids participated in different Math, Spanish and Reading

contests at local area schools• More participation of teachers and childcare workers attending seminars• Many of our older boys and girls also attended several hygiene and sexual

seminars• Our kitchen is now cleaner and more sanitary• Our workshops production increased and we were able to sell• Dental doctors from Switzerland checked all our children• Christian seminars were given to our older boys and girls

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• Our female football team, after winning the national championship, traveledto Panama and represented Nicaragua in the Central American High SchoolAthletic Games

• We got 4 new sewing machines, we expect to start making our own clothingnow

• A new water pump was also installed• We were able to get more books for our library• Our 'Quinceaneras' 15 B-days big birthday celebration for our young ladies• Those who graduated from Seconday School will start giving their year of

service. 32 primary school graduates too• Our Christmas and New Year's holidays were very special too.

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• All of our children were tested for HIV• Vaccinated all of our young kids for hepatitis A & B• We were able to get medications from Germany

Difficulties

• The movement of all of our children to main land• The death of our dearest fr. Wasson and fr. Frank• Our radios are too old• Difficulties with our students; it is hard to keep

them studying• Lack of people to teach religious • Could not finish a manual for our teachers for lack

of interest• Need people to teach the use of our new machines

Psychological Department

Achievements

• Group therapy was more consistent• We treated children with conduct problems• Some children were able to attend a psychiatrist • Restructured our office

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Difficulties

• We found lack of cooperation at times from some teachers

• Many other projects were ahead of our consults

• It is hard to find medicines• Not very clear who to talk to about

responsibilitiesGoals

• To evaluate ALL children• Follow ups on treatments• Focus on our Human Resource personnel especially teachers• Pay closer attention to kids with learning difficulties• Hire a more qualified and reliable personnel

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Casa Guadalupe

Casa Guadalupe is located in Managua. It is the home for our University boysand girls and also functions as an office for purchasing and selling of cards

• It also attends other NPH business such as medical consultations and newarrivals

• Cares for our University and Technical School students

A few statistics:

On November 22, 2005, casa Guadalupe opened its doors to our first 26 youngstudents 13 boys and 13 young ladies. 5 of them got into University, 19 are nowin technical schools (auto mechanics, carpentry, electricity, bakery and compu-ter skills). On October 2006, 12 got their diplomas (7 girls and 5 boys). There areliving 33 students at this home (15 boys and 18 girls).

We encourage our students to visit their younger brothers and sisters on theisland.

Our students' average conduct and cooperation grade is of 9.8 and 10 of a scaleof 10.

Goals

• We will continue looking for scholarships for our students• Our goal is to have 70 students• Try to retrieve a house donated by Ann Buhler• We are going to be able to help our graduates inacially for a period of 6 months

while they get on their feet.