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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“Concepción colors with crayons for the first time during an AMOS Chronic Care Group session at the Samaritan Clinic in Nejapa.”
Read MoreThis 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 MoreIn 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 MoreFor 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 MoreEugenia 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 MoreLast 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…
Read MoreIn Malacatoya 2, a rural community in the department of Boaco, days usually begin the same way they have for generations. Roosters crow before sunrise.Horses are prepared for work.Men and women step into the fields knowing that what they do today will put food on the table tomorrow. Life is not easy, but it is…
Read MoreDoña Guillermina is 67 years old. Every time she walks to the Villa Guadalupe Urban Clinic, she does so with the same quiet determination that carried her through decades of washing and ironing clothes for other families. It was the steam from the iron, she says, that affected her the most.“It stayed in my chest,”…
Read MoreIt was a rainy night in the rural community of Malacatoya 2.Griselda, a devoted mother, was living through one of the hardest moments of her life. Her 3-year-old son, José Andrés, had a high fever and was struggling to breathe. The heavy rains had made the river impassable. They were trapped. At 10 p.m., desperate…
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Some days begin like any other…until everything changes. For Heyling, one of the community health volunteers AMOS supports in the rural village of Banco de Sikia, that moment came when she saw baby Joel. “No, oh God, please no…” Heyling’s heart sank as she looked at him. Something was wrong. Drawing on her AMOS training,…
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