Agricultural Project

COMMIT started a pilot garden project in the village of Nandarola under the direction and work of a hired Nicaraguan Agronomist. This project has been a great success and the 10 orginal farmers have grown to 20, plus we have expanded to another village. The importance of providing healthy food options to the people and helping them become self sufficient has always been our goal. This is an ongoing project of COMMIT as we expand into other villages and include more people from Nandarola in the project. 

Bee Keeping

A few years ago COMMIT hired a group called The Nicaragua Bee project to start a bee hive project at the NPH orphanage on Ometepe Island. The group from Wisconsin spent a week training some NPH workers how to care for the bees. They have been back several times since to do more teaching and check on the hives. NPH Iis now selling the honey as well as using it for the children.

Two farmers in the village of Nandarola have also started a bee project and are successfully harvesting honey. They hope to expand the project to more farmers this coming fall when the bee keepers return to Nicaragua.

Building Projects

The village of Nandarola requested help with an addtion on their existing community centre to provide a place for the women to sew. October 2019 COMMIT's building team worked alongside the villagers to provide them with extra space. 

San Luis received a much needed addtion onto their Spanish building for the sewing co-op and renovations to the existing building to be used as a medical facility. A team accomplished this request March 2022. 

Hospital support

COMMIT has been supporting the hospital in Nandaime for the past 10 years. We  have supported them through monetary donations to buy much needed supplies, as well as brought thousands of dollars worth of beds, eqipment and supplies via shipping containers. Our latest donation was a much needed ultrasound machine.  This remains one of our active projects

Music Program

Music Teacher Jhonny Flores was hired by COMMIT to continue with the teaching at various schools. He works closely with our Canadian music teacher, Beverly Neeb. Music is such a universal language and COMMIT is pleased to provide the teaching, as well as various musical instruments to the students. The smiles on their faces tell it all.

Sewing Project

Sewing CO-OPs were started in Nandarola and San Luis. We have provided education on sewing machines and their upkeep, material and supplies. The sewers continue to sew for their families, have provided the hospital with hospital gowns, made masks for protecion against covid etc. All in all a successful project which we hope continues to grow.

Eco-Friendly Cookstoves

COMMIT will be working together with Stove Team International to build up to 750 echo-friendly stoves over the next 3 years. These stoves are at least 50% more efficient in saving carbon and greenhouse gases and will improve the health of the people using them, especially the women and small children who are constantly around them. These stoves are referred to as Justa stoves- they employ rocket elbow technology and are insulated and have a smoke stack venting to the outside. They will replace the present open fire cooking stoves that are so inefficient and detremental to the health of the users.

Clean, Safe Drinking Water

Many villages lack clean, safe water to drink. COMMIT has been able to gift two villages with a deep, drilled well to provide enough water to sustain the village. We recently drilled wells in 5 more villages and piped water to the homes in Nandarola as well as some in San Luis. Fresh, clean drinking water is a basic necessity that so many people in Nicaragua lack. COMMIT through the Rotary Club of Stratford and Granada and the support of the Nicaraguan government is pleased to be able to provide this necessity to hundreds of people.