Making Dreams into Reality with #graduation4all
They want to be teachers, pilots, the first in their family to be a doctor...
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25
June
community programs
Spark Ventures
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A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words…
Spark Ventures partners with local organizations that help vulnerable children, with current partnerships in Zambia and Nicaragua. Spark's unique partnership model focuses on sustaining the organizations it works with. Spark's partners receive on-going training and consultation in areas of personnel management, infrastructure, organizational growth and...
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06
June
Spark Ventures
| community programs, healthcare, nutrition, public health, report from the field, zambia | No comment
North Park University Students Venture to Zambia to Host Clinic
A team of nursing students from North Park University have just completed one of the biannual clinics at our partner organization in Zambia supported by Spark. The nursing students, working alongside a Zambian doctor and nurses treated over 350 children from Hope House Orphanage and...
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04
June
Spark Ventures
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Dreams Can Become Realities…#graduation4all
Have you met Cecilia yet?Cecilia is a vibrant girl, one of those characters that is hard to miss. This year she will graduate from 7th grade at Hope Community school, likely at the top of her class. Cecilia wants to be a doctor or a...
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29
May
Spark Ventures
| community programs, education, nicaragua, nutrition, report from the field, travel | No comment
Food, Fun, and New Friends
While visiting our partners, Spark trip participants are able to be a part of ongoing programs as well as special activities. At the core of our partner programs is the Las Tias daily meal program. Most of the children come from homes...
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07
May
Spark Ventures
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Transformation Stories: Allison
One of the incredibly important activities, included in every Partnership Trip Spark facilitates, is what we call a "Transformation Story." In Nicaragua, this is an opportunity to visit one of the beneficiaries of Las Tías in their home. Their generous families invite our travelers into...
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27
April
Spark Ventures
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Day 2: Games and Culture
Day two was a full one as our nine trip participants spent the morning at the young kids center, the afternoon with the adolescents and the evening with the Las Tias team cooking (and eating!) dinner at the home of founder, Corina Alvarez. (Oh and...
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25
April
Spark Ventures
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Photos from our First Full Day
Check out a glimpse of the first full day of our travels in Nicaragua...
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23
April
Spark Ventures
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The Poultry Farm Hatches New Success
The Zambian Poultry Farm has hit and surpassed quite a few milestones over the past months. After starting with 2,500 chickens, the Poultry Farm scaled production and welcomed 12,000 chicks last December. The farm’s strategic partnership with Zambeef - one of the largest poultry...
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22
April
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The Things We Leave Behind
At Spark, we measure our impact in the long term success of our partnerships. We want children served by our partners to have access to the resources they need to achieve their potential, and we do this by strengthening and sustaining amazing community programing.To reach...
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28
March