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Granada Street Kids

Why choose Granada Street Kids?

Granada Street Kids is a Californian non-profit founded in 2010 in Granada, Nicaragua. Its main project is Escuela Nueva Vida (School New Life), a free-of-charge private school for the education and rehabilitation of young street boys and boys with complicated family backgrounds. It offers a professional training in the following three vocational fields: English, Carpentry and Textile; as well as basic education in Spanish, Math and Informatics and provides an income, a safe place to live and three healthy meals a day to the students.

Founded
2010

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Pauline
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

An organisation close to the people who need help

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What would you improve about this program?
Granada Street Kids is a relatively young organisation compared to others (it has been running for 3 years). Hence, it hasnt developed much online and is constantly evolving. However, this is also a ood thing since it enabled me to take initiatives, implement new projects etc. The good thing about Granada Street Kids is that they are very-open minded. They see volunteers as an opportunity to learn from their working methods. Because lets face it, Nica way of working differs a lot from the Western way! But after all, that is also part of the experience in an organisation run by locals (for the pratical part at least)
So to fully benefit from their volunteer experience at Granada Street Kids, one should not be scared to suggest changes if they think it is useful:
The only frustrating thing at Granada Street Kids i that Nicaraguan law forbids them to force anyone to stay at school if they dont want to. This may sound logial. It is however very sad when the kid that wants to leave is a 13 year-old who is going to go back to taking drugs on the street because he does not know what is good for him and has no family support to guide him. Facing the rough reality is sadly inherent in an NGO based in such a poor country..

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