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Refugee Assistance
Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who have fled their countries due to repression or lack of healthcare and medicine are able to be helped at Corner of Love Relief Centers. For assistance, displaced individuals should complete a Refugee Form.
Healthcare: Healthy villagers and families
Corner of Love serves in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Colombia reaching impoverished and refugee families through medical, dental, and eye care missions as well as education and nutrition projects. When working in rural villages, medicine and supplies are packed each day and brought by truck, bus, horseback, or backpack to serve remote communities. One of the most important things we do is assist people fleeing repression, stepping in to help along their uncertain journey. Though we have primarily worked in Nicaragua since 1992, currently we are expanding our care to reach displaced families in other nations such as Mexico, Honduras, and Panama.
Education: Passion for learning
Since 2004, Corner of Love has made financial and in-kind donations to hundreds of schools in and around San Ramón and ignited a passion for learning in underprivileged children and teens that believed attaining an education was impossible.
Through shoes and backpack distribution events, targeted aid to driven students in rural areas, and support to teachers in the Darienses Mountain Range, we have shown our commitment to academic advances for Nicaragua’s next generation.
Our next steps in promoting education in Nicaragua will be to finish our Leadership School and select motivated student representatives from villages we serve in for study there. Corner of Love’s Leadership curriculum will include Bible Study, English, and Computer Skills, while preparing young citizens to positively contribute to the development of their rural community.
Nutrition:
Nearly six million Venezuelan and Nicaraguan refugees are not getting enough to eat. Less than half of those we serve eat two meals per day due to lack of funds. Hunger is a huge problem at ground zero of Latin America’s migration crisis but Corner of Love is responding in a big way. Our Nutrition Program focuses on refugees having a clear goal towards self- sufficiency while aiding with three months or more of food assistance. Beneficiaries receive one to two week supplies of rice, beans, eggs, cooking oil, sugar, produce, and more. The provision of badly needed staple foods helps mothers and fathers concentrate on their self-sufficiency goal while staying in touch with Corner of Love for spiritual guidance and societal integration help. Every day we see strong, positive results and entire families moving in the direction of being more self-sufficient because of Corner of Love’s Nutrition Program.