Updates

Small and medium-sized enterprises, better known as SMEs in Nicaragua, contribute to the development objectives in our country. They represent more than 90 percent of businesses nationally, providing new opportunities and economic improvements for the families of the country.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our Human Capacity Training program, a breakthrough in acknowledging  the challenges faced by rural communities, and creating a way to support and train them to become agents of change.
This is a report on our recent cohort of ten rural women who worked together in 2021 to become protagonists in their own development, and leaders in their community.

"During my third year in secondary school ViviendasLeón began to support me with a scholarship of $35 dollars a month so that I could continue my studies. I am grateful because we are a poor family.  My father works for the San Antonio Sugar Mill harvesting sugar cane and earning about $90 a month. My mother is a housewife."

The gaps in equality, and the difficult situation in which Fabiola Chavarria, a 28-year-old peasant woman lived, motivated her and other women like her to organize and participate in the Human Capacity Training program, which ViviendasLeón provides in the communities of Sutiava.