Santa Ana is a small community of 76 families located in the department of Matagalpa. This
community was founded in 2005 and is 166 km from the capital, Managua. The current elected leader of the community is Jose Filimon Centeno Pineda. The people of Santa Ana are primarily farmers who grow coffee, bananas, corn and beans. They don’t have electricity or running water. The community is divided by a river and built into the side of one of northern Nicaragua’s beautiful mountains. The climate is significantly cooler there than on the coast and in the capital. The closest medical clinic is 36 km away.
Santa Ana has had formal education for the past 6 years- since it was founded- but the existing school there is not a permanent building. It is an old coffee processing center that has been converted into a single classroom since no other school is available. There are 79 girls and 38 boys currently studying with 3 teachers in preschool and primary school in this makeshift Santa Ana school building.
The buildOn school block that I’ll help build have two classrooms and two latrines. It will have a
poured concrete floor, cinderblock walls and a corrugated tin roof.
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