This week, we gathered online for Stories of Hope from Nicaragua, an hour-long conversation with two people who have served their villages alongside AMOS for years. Nahum has been a brigadista (community health volunteer) in Rancho Pando, Chinandega for 25 years. Heidi has been a Community Health Volunteer for five years and now serves with…
Read MoreForty Minutes
A doctor in Managua told Marbelyng her son had forty minutes left. Two years later, in an early childhood stimulation room in El Ayote, Omar is pulling himself up to walk. Marbelyng Carmen Velásquez counts her son’s life in the things he can do now that he couldn’t do before. He sits up. He crawls….
Read MoreFrom Learning to Lasting Change: Lucía
Lucía was nine years old the first time she taught someone else about health. She had joined a community program called Niño a Niño (Child to Child) as a participant. Before long she was a promoter herself, passing on what she had just learned to the children and families around her. She has been doing…
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Arlen and a Path of Her Own Making
Arlen leads her household. She is the mother of two children, ages 2 and 7, and for eight years she has served as a brigadista, a community health volunteer, in a rural community near Waslala, in Nicaragua’s central mountain region. A Decade of Service, Born from a Desire to Help Long before she held a…
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“Now We Have to Encourage People to Have Children”
How community health volunteers are quietly changing lives in rural Nicaragua The road to Boca de Piedra, a rural community nestled in the mountains of Matagalpa, is not an easy one. But for AMOS Health and Hope, and for the health volunteers who gathered there, the journey was more than worth it. AMOS traveled to…
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Finding Joy, Healing, and Community at the Samaritan Clinic
“Concepción colors with crayons for the first time during an AMOS Chronic Care Group session at the Samaritan Clinic in Nejapa.”
Read MoreFrom Community Health Volunteers to Psychologists: Two Seeds of Hope Graduates Begin a New Chapter
This month, there was news worth stopping to celebrate. Two community health volunteers supported through AMOS’ Seeds of Hope Scholarship Program have graduated from college. They are now psychologists. For Mayqueling and Glennis, graduation day was filled with joy, emotion, and gratitude — the culmination of years of effort, sacrifice, and unshakeable faith in something…
Read MoreA Mother’s Day Gathering That Opened an Honest Conversation About Women’s Health
In May, a gathering of community health volunteers in Villanueva became something more than a training session. It was also a Mother’s Day celebration — a moment to honor women, mothers, and the vital role they play in the wellbeing of their families and communities. But alongside the music, the laughter, and the joy, the…
Read MoreWhat Love Remembers
For the past six months, Valeria has brought her mother, Ana Rosa, to the Samaritan Clinic once a month. Ana Rosa is 79 years old and has been living with symptoms of Alzheimer’s for the past two years. She also needs regular medical care to keep her blood pressure under control. Before moving in with…
Read More“The Thing”: A Small Moment of Care in Villa Guadalupe
Eugenia Natividad greeted the clinic staff with quiet warmth before carefully writing down her name and the names of the five children she had brought with her that day. Three were her daughters: Francella, Evangelion, and Ana. The other two, Leslie and Eduardo, were her nephews. Their mother could not come because she was busy…
Read MoreAt 94, Don Santos still shows up ready to learn
Last week, at the AMOS campus in Nejapa, patients living with chronic illnesses gathered for the relaunch of the Friends with Chronic Illness Wellness Club, a monthly space designed to complement the free care they already receive at the Samaritan Clinic. But this was not just another health talk. It was a morning built around…
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