• A donation of $50 provides a woman working with the Rural Women’s Committee in León with a goat that she can use to help feed her family and raise her income by selling dairy products.
• For $140, you can provide a secondary school scholarship to a student who is active in the Xochilt-Acatl Women’s Center’s Youth Education Program. This pays for uniforms, books, food and transportation. Without this support, families face increased financial hardship, causing many students to abandon their studies.
• Micro-entrepreneurs can use $500 to improve and expand their businesses. With the extra income generated from their micro-enterprises, they are able to improve the living conditions of their homes, send their children to school and provide employment opportunities to community members.
• With $700, a family living in one of Managua’s poorest neighborhoods can connect to a sewage line and build a sanitary unit consisting of a shower, toilet and wash basin in their home.
• One manzana of land (1.7 acres) is valued at $1,500 in the rural areas surrounding Estelí, where the Fundación Entre Mujeres (La FEM) works. A donation of this amount helps landless women overcome their life-long struggle to provide for the nutritional well-being of their families and generate income to move out of poverty.
We also offer socially responsible community investing!
Investing in the NICA Fund allows members the opportunity to give a gift that perpetually gives, while also offering double bottom line returns. Nicaragua’s working poor can grow their businesses, move out of poverty, and provide better futures for themselves and their children. In addition to this social return, investors also receive a modest financial return. Investment opportunities begin at just $2,000. Please contact WCCN to request a prospectus.
