by Team BRIGHT | Jun 28, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
Friday was chaos. Sometimes, language barriers make for interesting communication. The team was getting close to exhaustion, and 150 students were needing our attention. The nine team members (Cori not included) set up their own station and the nine groups of children...
by Team BRIGHT | Jun 27, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
Our morning at Tesoros de Dios was spent presenting to the staff (teachers, therapists, and administration) on each discipline. We started with Amy, who gave a presentation on implementing a reading program. Next was PT Pam. She gave a presentation on Cerebral Palsy...
by Team BRIGHT | Jun 26, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
The children at Tesoros can only come to school two days a week, because Tesoros does not have enough staff to help all 90 children in the program simultaneously. Because of this, we saw new children today (Wednesday) than we did on Tuesday. This means more...
by Team BRIGHT | Jun 25, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
Tesoros De Dios is a school in Managua for children with various disabilities, from learning disabilities to severe Autism and Cerebral Palsy. The team is sitting here talking about the positives of the day. Highlights from the day: Pam, the PT, got two kids to walk...
by Team BRIGHT | Jun 24, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
All of today was spent at New Life with lots of therapy, rotating children, and staff training. We began by dividing the children into three groups by age. The babies (8 months and younger) and their staff went with Ronit, Trisha, and Angie to learn infant massage...
by Team BRIGHT | Jun 23, 2014 | 2014 - Nicaragua
Our first blog post since we landed! We are finally able to get internet, and so we will take a few moments to share with you what our Sunday looked like. We went to church today at “Verbos” church. The service began with no power (which means no worship...
