Salud y Vida Nicaragua Community Health Workshops

Salud y Vida Nicaragua Community Health Workshops Salud y Vida Community Health Workshops is a nonprofit designed to promote healthy communities in Nicaragua through interactive education.

Salud y Vida teaches a series of health workshops covering Basic First Aid, Illness Prevention and Treatment, Dental Health, Blood Pressure Screening and Women’s Health are presented by Registered Nurse, Corrin Berg and her team, to communities surrounding Los Cardones Eco Lodge in western Nicaragua. Medical donation kits are distributed to the participants for them to apply their leaned health skills into their daily lives. Biannually, over a period of two month, the program reaches the lives of over 100 families. Salud y Vida provides communities with the opportunity to learn and practice healthy living skills and changes lives.

Our boots on the ground team taught a series of health classes for 195 participants this past weekend. Huge shout out f...
03/15/2022

Our boots on the ground team taught a series of health classes for 195 participants this past weekend. Huge shout out for all their efforts to make it happen! Each participants received a refill kit on soap and cleaning supplies, masks, a thermometer and a nutrition kit full of immunity boosting foods. Even better, they taught on how to stay healthy during our current health status.

This Ecolodge has all the outdoor amenities to allow you to vacation with less Covid worries. Highly recommended!!
06/25/2021

This Ecolodge has all the outdoor amenities to allow you to vacation with less Covid worries. Highly recommended!!

Team Salud y Vida teaching our Spring Classes (perfect timing with another wave of Covid infections in the area). A big ...
06/06/2021

Team Salud y Vida teaching our Spring Classes (perfect timing with another wave of Covid infections in the area). A big thank you to our boot on the ground team Rodrigo Ezequiel Davila Los Cardones EcolodgeMaricela VallecilloJonathan Puerto.

our COVID response; when a community member tests positive for Covid, we team up with a Whats App group and offer suppor...
05/27/2021

our COVID response; when a community member tests positive for Covid, we team up with a Whats App group and offer support and a safe place to ask questions. We also have supplies dropped off at their house. Big thank you to our team (Rodrigo Ezequiel Davila Los Cardones Ecolodge Jonathan Puerto Maricela Vallecillo) and donors/supporters ( Mudroom).

Big thanks to our local team organizing and delivering these Covid Response Kits to families directly effected (and infe...
05/22/2021

Big thanks to our local team organizing and delivering these Covid Response Kits to families directly effected (and infected) by Covid. Sticking with Salud y Vida’s mission, we also provide for them education and a safe/confidential space to ask questions. It’s a team effort, thank you Rodrigo Ezequiel Davila, Jonathan Puerto Maricela Vallecilloand Los Cardones Ecolodge.

Since we are running smaller classes, we teach the same class over and over and over again (for a total of 13 times to b...
12/30/2020

Since we are running smaller classes, we teach the same class over and over and over again (for a total of 13 times to be exact). That can make a translator (Augusta Friendsmith) tired, needing a hammock siesta!

12/30/2020

PSA: wash your hands, wear a mask, keep your distance. (Best translator in el mundo Augusta Friendsmith )

Good news, we can strengthen our immune system!! Eat more fruits and vegetables, less sugar, soda, salt and fried foods....
12/21/2020

Good news, we can strengthen our immune system!! Eat more fruits and vegetables, less sugar, soda, salt and fried foods. Do you have 5 colors on your plate?
Thanks to our generous donors we are able to supplies our families with a healthy food basket, full of immunity boosting foods.

Open air classrooms allow us to gather in our small groups and safely demonstrate social distancing and proper mask use....
12/20/2020

Open air classrooms allow us to gather in our small groups and safely demonstrate social distancing and proper mask use. (PC: Jonathan Puerto and Rodrigo Ezequiel Davila. Fashion Model: Augusta Friendsmith)

12/19/2020

Hands are the principal carriers of disease-causing germs. The average time people wash their hands is 6 seconds. Salud y Vida’s very first class in 2013 was on Washing Hands, and we have been teaching it in every class since.

Meeting of the minds! (Jonathan Puerto, Maricela Vallecillo, and the beautiful Julieth)Our local brains putting the fina...
12/19/2020

Meeting of the minds! (Jonathan Puerto, Maricela Vallecillo, and the beautiful Julieth)
Our local brains putting the final touches on class details. The speed bump was that all three bridges were washed out and we had to figure out how to get to Zapote.

975 bars of soap and 6,593 oz of liquid soap. 195 families will be putting up a fight against germs!!
12/16/2020

975 bars of soap and 6,593 oz of liquid soap. 195 families will be putting up a fight against germs!!

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PO Box 3106
Jackson, WY
83001

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