Project Schoolhouse

Project Schoolhouse collaborates with families of Nicaraguan rural communities to build improved school, water and sanitation infrastructure. Our financial contributions source local supplies and technical expertise, while communities volunteer all of the labor to bring clean water and latrines to every home, and build an elementary school for each child. With a sustained focus on fundraising and partnership, we aim to increase the number of projects completed each year. Additionally, we are collaborating with community volunteers to implement programs aimed at addressing child learning gaps and encourage school retention through provision of enrichment opportunities in the primary schools.

We have a multi-pronged approach to increasing the provision of clean water, sanitation and educational infrastructure. We are working to increase the level of funding obtained via our own fundraising efforts in various giving channels, expansion of partnerships and sharing of expertise with others interested in learning how to implement gravity-fed water systems. We have also grown our local team to support our school retention initiatives.

Our investment in US fundraising efforts are taking off. We continue to invest in local capacity building to support increased project and program implementation, efficacy and effectiveness. The Project Schoolhouse team is embedded in the communities in which we work, allowing us to quickly scale construction as our funding grows. The community advocacy and building skills that are a direct, positive outcome of each of our prior projects heightens the awareness of our work within the region and adds to the pipeline of future projects.

To date, we have helped 15 communities transform their lives; 2300 people have safe water in their homes and 1700 children study in schools we've helped them build. We are proud of the expansion of our work over the years from single projects in one community annually, to multiple projects in several communities each year. Moving forward, we will stewards and expand partnerships with foundations, organizations and individuals whose funding priorities align with our work, sustaining the growth of these life-changing projects.