The problem is to put the resources where they do the most good. Heres the chokepoint:

Most of the poorest families, and I work with some of them, only live in tin shacks with 4-8 people per shack. They seem to eat well enough. They seem to get electricity where I work. I don’t see starvation signs in the kids that come to our school. I don’t see hunger suffering there, though there ARE a bunch of kids, probably orphans, or kids of drug addicted parents, who sniff glue. They are a problem, but less than say, in Mexico city. The level of parental care here seems to be fairly high. The kids seem happy and loved for the most part, though some seem a little starved for attention.

These kids go to school, are taught as best they can be taught with a BARE minimum of school materials. I´m talking whiteboard, notebooks, and some other materials of lower cost. They have computers in our school, but they were bought with money from overseas, not from the Nicaraguan government. They try hard as they can, but many have pre-school children they bring to school for them, For us, Pre-school is more of a babysitting service, so the kids that want to go to school can do so while their sisters and brothers are being cared for. They get home, and they work, hard as a child can work, either babysitting or something else. There is not even a desk in the home, let alone a book, and the parents couldn’t help them with homework if they wanted to. In short, the culture of manual work dictates against wholesale educational success.

Still, its important to try, and sites like these are at least trying to do something for a few kids, and for that they are to be applauded.

Let me know if I could be of any use. I am 24 years old and have a lot of energy!