The Covid-19 pandemic made us postpone the fluoride varnish program back in May in this year. Only now have conditions relaxed enough for us to resume this important preventive dental hygiene program in the participating pre-schools. Once again we have received indispensable support from the local delegation of the Ministry of the Family in coordination with the Health Ministry. We are very grateful to Boston University's School of Dental Medicine for making this program possible.

Since the third week of June our teachers have imparted classes of the adult secondary education programme via internet using Whatsapp groups and other digital platforms. These distance classes are complemented with text book materials and study guides provided by our various teachers. In August we have continued to maintain our distance classes but we have also resumed physical classes, always encouraging our students to follow the measures of hygiene and distancing recommended by Nicaragua's Health Ministry.

Our shoe making and ceramics activities have continued normally despite the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic this year. Santos Sobalvarro has trained two young men and two young women in shoe making skills, while Juan Ramon Zambrano has trained two young men and three women in ceramics skills.

Siren paints the base color on the piece of a mobile
 

Superemos Annual Report for 2019

General

2019 was a good year for Superemos. Our programs successfully met the needs of a large number of people in and around the city of Estelí. We continued to develop important institutional relationships with the local municipal and university authorities, with the relevant government ministries and with various faculties of the University of Boston.

In August we began the second semester of sewing classes with educator Aura Lilian Castro and a new group of students from the local municipal authority's skills training program.

In July we finished the first term of our course in sewing skills which we implement together with Estelí's local municipal authority. The sewing educator this term has been Daysi Rivera. This term participants learned basic skills understanding how to read and make patterns for different garments.

Sones Segovianos held its end of semester concert on July 11th. We are very grateful to the students who presented the concert and to their parents for encouraging them to participate. We also appreciate very much the support of our funders for making this program possible in order to develop the tremendous creative potential of our students.