Donate to Nicaragua

Once or twice a year The Sunrise Foundation organizes a large shipment of donated items that leaves (by large truck) from a sister project in Buffalo, New York and arrives in Teustepe, Nicaragua a town about an hour outside of Camoapa, where our center is located. (See our recent Donations post from July.)

The time is here again! We are collecting items that will be shipped at the end of the year.

Our project works to help elementary aged children be successful in school. These children probably wouldn’t be completing elementary school, or even attending any school at all, without our program. Being involved with these children and their families and furthermore, being a significant organization within the community, has also led us to want to help other local efforts.

We will be taking our shipment from Northampton, MA to Buffalo, NY toward the end of October. Maybe you have some of these things you would like to send to a good home. Or maybe you know someone who does. Here is a list of some of the most needed items:

• Baby clothes (ages 0 to 3 months)

• Baby blankets for the mothers at the local branch of Casa Materna

• Boys’ clothes sizes 6-14

• Towels, sheets and blankets (for beds of any size)

• Children’s’ backpacks

• Blocks, children’s toys, paper and crayons for the new Centro de Desarrollo Infantil (pre-school center) in town

• All types of school supplies (excluding books written in English)

• Wheelchairs, walkers, physical therapy and occupational therapy equipment for children. We are working with a local branch of Los Pipitos, a national organization that helps children with disabilities

• Girls’ softball equipment: balls, gloves, bats, catcher’s masks, helmets, etc.

• Boxing equipment: gloves, punching bags (speed and heavy), hand wraps, etc.

• Computers (no more than 5 years old)

If you have any of these items and would like to contribute, please email or call Lisa Hall at lisahallg@gmail.com / (413)268-9271. Please note: we have no way of collecting items from anywhere other than Western Massachusetts. If you live somewhere else and have something you would like to donate, the only way we can accept it is if you are willing to pay the shipping cost.

Thank you on behalf of Hogar Luceros del Amanecer and the children and families of Nicaragua.