visedal nicaragua sponsorship program

VISEDAL Partnership

Managua, NicaraguaDylan Waugh – President

Brad Johnson – Vice-President

Our Vision

• Helping children get off the streets and back into school in Managua, Nicaragua

• Using education to break the cycle of poverty

• Fostering strong and stable families to support our children

What We Do

• Provide hope to some of the world’s poorest children through education, food and clothing

• Give children their childhood back

• Show love and support to children often neglected by society

How We Do It: VISEDAL’s Child Sponsorship Program

• Children attend school, don’t work on street

• Each family receives $20/month food stipend per child in program

• Supplies, tuition covered• Children also receive

weekly English lessons• Donors from USA

currently sponsor 14 children

Lives Transformed

• Before: Children washed car windshields and begged for money on a major street corner

• Now: Children attend school and supplemental English lessons

VISEDALWhat does it mean?

• Visteme - dress me• Educame - educate me• Alimentame - feed me

• Official non-profit recognition is pending

Why We Do It

• Three children asked Waugh for money in October, 2007

• Waugh took them to lunch

• In time, Waugh and Johnson got to know the children and their families

• The pair recognized how education could help prepare the children for brighter futures

Our Kids

Our Kids

Contact Info

• www.visedal.org

• Dylan Waugh - President– dylan@visedal.org

• Brad Johnson, Vice-President– brad@visedal.org