Teaching the Future
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Education is they key to breaking the continuing cycle of poverty in Nicaragua. More than one half of the rural population of Nicaragua is illiterate. Students in rural communities lack basic education opportunities. No high schools are available in many rural Nicaraguan communities so if they can afford the cost, students must often travel miles to attend school.
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Rainbow Network sponsors make the dream of a high school education
come true.
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Nearly 721 students are in need of sponsors.
Will you help find
caring people to be sponsors in 2008?
Click here
for more information on how you can help find sponsors
Nicaragua has the lowest primary school completion rate in Latin America and more than a third of poor children do not even have access to textbooks. To answer the needs for primary education, Rainbow Network operates 550 elementary schools. These schools enable 8,009 students to get an elementary education. Rainbow Network provides Spanish textbooks, school supplies, and volunteer teachers. Professional educators on the Rainbow Network staff oversee the 1,107 volunteer teachers who operate these schools. |
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