Tools for Schools

 

In the fall of 2007, SchoolBox initiated a new program to purchase and deliver much needed infrastructure to impoverished schools.

The reality in Nicaragua is that most schools in rural areas and poorer urban neighborhoods rely on parents to maintain and replace aging infrastructure and do school repairs. With 45.1 percent of the population living on less than $1 a day (World Bank, 2004) the repercussions of this system are obvious. Shortages of chairs, desks, blackboards, and world maps are chronic. It is the norm to have more students than seats.