When many Marin high school students hit the ski slopes during winter break, two dozen members of Terra Linda High School’s Nicaragua Service Club will venture to Managua to aid schoolchildren.
“I feel like it is really important for the students to see how most of the rest of the world lives,” said Laura Merlo, whose [...]

After reading and hearing stories of the difference a single person can make, 20 students from Lincoln IB World Middle School are planning a 10-day trip to Nicaragua, where they hope to make a difference for members of that country.
For the second year, eighth- grade students will travel to San Juan del Sur, a town [...]

EAST BRIDGEWATER —Central Elementary School in East Bridgewater ran a collection drive until early October to supply shoes and notebooks to children in Nicaragua so they can go to school.
Lou Fiore, director of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, will deliver the supplies. Fiore travels to Nicaragua three times a year and brings [...]

The rain stopped just in time for Costa Rican singer-songwriters Mal País to take the stage Saturday night at the environmental awareness event Festival 350.
Hundreds of University of Costa Rica (UCR) students gathered in San Pedro, in eastern San José, at the UCR engineering parking lot to see the beloved Tico band during an activity [...]

ADRIAN — Next month, 15 Adrian College students plan to head for Nicaragua to help provide medical and dental services in the impoverished Central American nation.
The students from the college about 60 miles southwest of Detroit are participants in a program sponsored by International Service Learning. They’re holding a fund-raising dinner Tuesday at JR’s Hometown [...]

When Richard Atkins visited El Sauce, Nicaragua, to help build new homes for peasants last summer, he could see the gratitude on their faces.
“I felt really good about that project because it has a lasting effect. You’re replacing these houses with strong buildings and they love that we’re there,” said Atkins, 23, of Warwick, Orange [...]

Before poring over numerous resolutions and hashing out this year’s budget at its regular meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Education recognized students who participated in service learning trips to Nicaragua and Mali withBuildOn.
“These students have helped transform lives in developing countries brick by brick,” said Margaret Chiu, assistant superintendent of high school Leadership Education for Administrator [...]