It was a bright morning in Somoto when our small crew climbed into a truck bound for Motuce, a rural community in northwest Nicaragua. We were there to celebrate the inauguration of CoCoDA’s new solar-powered water system. ...
30 Jan
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30 Jan
I am traveling through El Salvador this week to visit our CoCoDA partners. I took a small break from writing this morning and wandered down to a park in Suchitoto overlooking lake Suchitlan. The Sunday morning was calm and families were walking, resting, and chatting in the shade of the mimosa trees. It was one of the most distilled feelings of peace one might find. ...
21 Dec
In the past, we’ve often emphasized how your Christmas donation to CoCoDA would help us purchase so many bricks, books, medicines, solar panels, and other tangible items. While these are important, those objects are always connected to real people. This year, we’re asking you to donate to people and their dreams!Rosa Murillo is better known as Morena. She has been a nurse since the civil war in El Salvador. Since then, she worked as a nurse for her community, paid and unpaid.A donation...
09 Sep
According to the United Nations “Midwives are the backbone of maternal health systems, as they perform tasks that go far beyond attending deliveries, they provide support to women in their most vulnerable moments and day after day, they defend the human right of women to have safe pregnancy and delivery”.Since 2014, CoCoDA has worked alongside the Suchitoto Midwives Association through the ENLACE Global Health program that brings students from the Indiana University School of Medicine to work alongside midwives providing...