Newest Students

Scholarship for Granada currently is looking for donations to send students to college. One student recently was sponsored by a family to go to school in Managua, Nicaragua; his name is Kairo and he is going to start attending UNICIT (Nicaragua University of Technology and Science) in August.

Kairo is 17 and lives with his single mother right now; she cannot afford to send him to college, therefore he found Scholarship for Granada and will start school very soon. He is going to study Graphic Design and Construction at UNICIT; Kairo was inspired to study this because he always had an interest in drawing as he grew up. The program will take 4 years and he will attend school everyday during the week, but will have to travel to Managua each day. Kairo is the first recipient of the scholarship to be attending school in the captial city, but choses to as his preferred school is located there.

There still are opportunities to help students as this scholarship is becoming more and more popular and young people around the area of Granada are learning about it. Jean Carla is another future recipient that is yet to receive any funding from outside donors. She is planning on studying Business Administration in a university in Granada, but currently does not have any funding to do so. The scholarship is looking for donors to sponsor her, partially or completely.

Universities in Granada, Nicaragua

There are 3 different universities in Granada that a student can elect to attend without any admission requirements, such as grades or tests. There are certain universities in the capital city Managua that require testing to enter; these universities are the ones that cost more, but are also have better education than those that do not require passing a test to get in. The three universities in Granada are:

• UPONIC (Universidad Popular Nicaragua)
• UHISPAM (Universidad Hispanoamericana)
• USTOM (Universidad Santo Tomas)
  

In Manugua, and more difficult to get into:

• UCA (Universidad Centralamerica)

Donating

Scholarship for Granada was created over the past three weeks and allows for the most efficient stream of money to reach those who need the most, the students. If you are interested in donating directly to the scholarship fund, make a check payable to: La Esperanza Housing & Development and address it to:

Scholarship for Granada
5115 Mischler Drive
Eau Claire, WI 54701

or go to http://www.casas-de-la-esperanza.org/ to make a donation at the website, indicating it is for the scholarship fund.

If donations are sent to Scholarship for Granada in Eau Claire, WI, they will be accounted for, and rapidly forwarded to La Esperanza Housing & Development association, where there amount donated is tax exempt.

Current Recipients

The first person who received this scholarship is Santos Antonio Arias. He is 34 years old, has a wife, two daughters and is a farmer who lives in La Prusia. He started his studies at UPONIC just over a year ago, but had to postpone them due to a lack of funds. Now that he has this scholarship he is able to resume his studies of Ingeníeria en Conputación y Sistema (Computer and System Engineering). He is in his second year of four and a half years in a "Sabatinos" schedule, meaning that he only attends school on Saturdays, which he does from 8am until 5pm each Saturday. Once he has completed his studies he wants to help others in the neighborhood of La Prusia learn computation and technology; which he has already started teaching his daughters. Antonio´s grades from last semester were very good:

• Introducción a la Computación: 90
• Autocapacitación: 100
• Ingles Técnico 1: 85
• Matemática Básica: 84
• Lenguaje Técnico Y Normal: 92

The second recipient of the scholarship is Josefa _______________. She started schooling at HUISPAM on March 8, 2008. She will be studying law, and this degree will take her five years while she studies, like Antonio on Saturdays only.