Fundacion NITCA

What is NITCA
NITCA stands for Street Working Children (Niños Trabajadores de la Calle). It is a grass roots community based program born in July 1999, to improve the condition of children who work the streets to help the economy of their families.

Located in El Barrio Los Laureles Sur, Managua, Nicaragua. The population was conformed of families displaced by war and natural disaster.

In 1999, 70% of the population was unemployed and 65% illiterate. Malnutrition was rampant and children grew riddle with sickness, the worst of them: HUNGER. Other impediments were housing, hygiene and transportation.


NITCA's Mission
To face the problem of poverty through education, nutrition, hygiene and health care. The program is based on community development and the empowerment of the families through training and work opportunities.

NITCA's Vision
A community that recognizes the Child and Adolescent as subjects of "Rights"; by that meaning the right to study and to be prepared to become a participant citizen of his/her country.

An empowered community self-sufficient to have a dignified economy.

No ray of sunshine is ever lost,
but the green which it awakens into existence
needs time to sprout,
and it is not always granted
for the sower to see the harvest.
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Albert Schweitzer

And eight years later, by working on faith, with no money to start, but $1.000 granted by a good friend (also in faith), NITCA has developed:

Education Program

Health Program

Adolescents Club

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