Community Outreach

ViVerde is always looking for new opportunities to partner with our neighbors and strengthen our community.

Upon talking to our neighborhood school teachers in 2015, we learned that La Imaculada Elementary was facing issues with its deteriorating security and sanitation systems. We immediately sent out a call to fund raise within the Granada community and led the charge to replace the school gates, toilet doors and classroom locks, hiring local metal workers to create and install them. The classroom doors now lock solidly, and all students enjoy four toilets with beautiful metal doors.

La Imaculada serves a morning meal of gallo pinto (rice & beans) to the students. Most children in Nicaragua (and in the United States, BTW) do not get enough fruits and vegetables in their daily diet. To support healthy eating, ViVerde held a planting day at the school and planted chaya and moringa trees, easy to grow nutrient dense greens,. The school cook can now add the leaves to meals for added vitamins and minerals. Read more about these powerhouse greens at Leaf for Life, a nonprofit specializing in enriching the human diet with leafy greens.

We also collaborated with local non-profit Coci-Nica to install a locally made, high efficiency stove. The new stove is a hit with the school cooks and requires much less firewood to operate.

We are excited for our next opportunities to improve and strengthen our neighborhood!