Compas de Nicaragua

Compas de Nicaragua (Friends of Nicaragua) is a NH 501c3 non-profit organization that formed in the early 1990's.

Compas' mission is to promote cultural exchange and improve lives through service trips and sustainable community development work.

Compas' project focus is "Women in Action," a group of 40 women who are organizing health and education projects in the poorest settlement of La Primavera (Springtime); a poor, urban neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua. WIA are poor women, who live in one-room, tin houses and work as street vendors in order to provide for their families.

Since WIA formed five years ago, the women have developed a gourd art cooperative, a backyard garden and animal husbandry project, a soy food program, a child sponsorship project, and a community store.

Compas organizes several service trips to La Primavera each year that work with WIA on projects, and learn about the culture, history and current conditions in Nicaragua. Volunteers and service groups stay at the visitor center.

Compas' Field Supervisors, Ana Narváez and Michael Boudreau work full-time in Nicaragua overseeing project work and receiving service groups.