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Student Scholarship Program of the Fundacion A. Jean Brugger Foundation graduates from English course.

12/31/2018

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​Ms. Concepción Membreño was awarded a scholarship beginning in 2015 by Fundación A. Jean Brugger. On December 15, 2018, she finished her English course at Keyser University.
Fundación A. Jean Brugger sincerely thanks and congratulates this young woman and her parents for the achievement obtained in her educational training. We especially want to mention our immense gratitude to the sponsors of this scholarship, Kathy & Kent Lannert, who sponsored Concepción Membreño for 3 years in the English program.
Thank you for believing and trusting in the project of Fundación A. Jean Brugger. "Providing educational opportunities for human and community development"
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Elderly Activity, December 11, 2018.

12/31/2018

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On Tuesday, December 11, 2018, our senior citizens enjoyed a special day, as part of the program of elders of Fundación A. Jean Brugger.
This event took place thanks to Randy Hale, Cheryl Johnson, and family, who sponsored this activity in memory of their mother Laverne Elliot.
Also, Fundación A. Jean Brugger thanks the owners of El Timón Restaurant and all the Staff, who offered a special, warm and friendly attention to the elderly.
We thank Legal Solutions for sponsoring the prizes for this activity, which consisted of basic baskets, full of food products, cleaning and personal hygiene items.
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Scholarship students of Fundación A. Jean Brugger, finish intensive English course.

12/29/2018

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On December 12 a group of 16 young people, including 8 current scholarship students, 5 former graduates of Fundación A. Jean, and 3 other young people from San Juan del Sur, completed the four-month-long intensive English course at Escuela Adelante.
This project was part of the new Life Skills Program, an opportunity to strengthen and complement professional knowledge for the scholarship students and former professional scholars of Fundación A. Jean Brugger. This special project will develop greater professional skills and labor competency.
Our students are very excited and grateful for the opportunity they had to learn English, because they know the value of speaking English in San Juan del Sur, a tourist city. This will be of great help to their professional development.
Fundacion A. Jean Brugger congratulates all the young people who took advantage of and successfully completed this educational opportunity.
Finally, special thanks to Kathleen Brugger for promoting this educational initiative, and to all the donors who helped make the “Life Skills Program” possible.
We also thank the director of Escuela Adelante Jaime Hunter and Professor Hannah Zucker for their collaboration and interest in our students.
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Students from the Tourism and International Trade group finalize their 2018 social project.

12/29/2018

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On Sunday, December 10, the students studying Tourism and International Trade completed their community service project.
During this activity the children participating in this social project enjoyed a very happy morning with a piñata and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Each child was given a package with candy, and finally contests were held and awards were given to the winners.
This activity was carried out to stimulate the willingness of the children to attend the English classes that were taught every Sunday from 10am to 11:30 a.m.
This social initiative was for the benefit of 40 children of the Nuevo Amanecer neighborhood of San Juan del Sur.
The Scholarship students that formed this group and directed this activity are: María Fernanda Veliz, Diana Arguello, Lisbeth Guzmán, Cristhel Mendoza and Bismara Siezar.
Fundación A Jean Brugger thanks and congratulates the students of Tourism and International Trade for their good work and dedication to their social project, through which they showed great interest in the children learning the basic knowledge of the English language and oral hygiene.
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Niñas adolescentes y madres de familias de la comunidad Las Marías reciben charla de salud sexual reproductiva y paquete de accesorios de higiene personal.

12/29/2018

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El pasado 01 de diciembre del 2018 se entregaron paquetes de toallas femeninas lavables a 30 niñas adolescentes y madres entre las edades 13-38 años en la comunidad rural de Las Marías del municipio de San Juan del Sur. Este paquete de toallas femeninas lavable son para niñas que inician su período menstrual en la etapa de la adolescencia. Dicho paquete contiene, barreras de protección para la humedad, toallitas, bolsa de tela, calzones, barra de jabón, bolsa de plástica con zíper etc.
El desarrollo de la actividad fue facilitado por estudiantes becadas en las carreras de ciencias médicas con el acompañamiento de Kathleen Brugger, miembro de junta directiva de EEUU y el director de programa sociales de Fundación A. Jean Brugger. Durante el desarrollo del programa de la actividad previo a las instrucciones del uso del paquete, las facilitadoras brindaron charlas socio educativa sobre los cambios fisiológicos de la niñez a la adolescencia e higiene personal, luego realizaron una práctica con cada una de las adolescentes sobre el uso del kit higiénico y finalmente se les entregó el paquete a cada participante.
La implementación de este proyecto es gracias a la solidaridad y alianza entre Fundación A. Jean Brugger y Days for Girls Marion NC Team quienes son del estado de Asheville, en Marion, North Carolina en los EEUU, cuyo objetivo principal es contribuir a que más señoritas adolescentes de zonas rurales tengan acceso a una mejor calidad, seguridad sustanciable e higiene femenina. La Fundación A. Jean Brugger agradece especialmente a Paula Burgin quien es la lider del grupo y junto a Kathleen Brugger articularon esfuerzo de trabajo para traer este proyecto para beneficios de mujeres adolescentes de comunidades rurales de San Juan del Sur.
Esta actividad fue dirigida por Kathleen Brugger presidente de Junta Directiva de Fundación A. Jean Brugger y Alvaro Novoa (Director de Programas Sociales de Fundación A. Jean Brugger), por otro lado agradecemos a Kim Priebe quien es doctora con especialidad en ginecología y Obstreticia quien colaboró voluntariamente facilitando su vehículo para trasladar al equipo facilitador a la comunidad, también agradecimiento a los estudiantes becados que apoyaron a desarrollar esta actividad como fueron: Kimberly Sumpul, Idalia Jiménez, Ingrid Collado, y Lizmadiela Baez,
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Women of the Las Marías community receive a talk on sexual and reproductive health

12/29/2018

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On December 1, 2018, the medical science students of Fundación A. Jean Brugger presented a seminar on reproductive health and sexuality in the rural community of Las Marías in the municipality of San Juan del Sur. 30 adolescent girls and adult women between the ages of 13 and 38 attended the talk. The program also included the distribution of Days for Girls kits, which are washable menstrual pads.
The program included talks about the menstrual cycle, the physiological changes from childhood to adolescence, and personal hygiene. Instructions were given about how to use the Days for Girls kit before each girl received her own personal kit.
The success of this project is thanks to the solidarity and alliance between Fundación A. Jean Brugger and Days for Girls Marion NC Team, North Carolina, a town near Asheville, NC in the U.S. The main objective of the Days for Girls project is to provide adolescent girls in poor countries access to feminine hygiene products. The Fundacion A. Jean Brugger is especially grateful to Paula Burgin, the Marion Team group leader, who worked with Kathleen Brugger to coordinate this effort.
This activity was directed by Alvaro Novoa, Director of Social Programs of the Fundacion A. Jean Brugger. We would like to thank Dr. Kim Priebe, specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology, who volunteered her time and her vehicle to transport the team to the Las Marías community. The scholarship students who participated are Kimberly Sumpul López, Idalia Jiménez, Ingrid Obando, and Lizmadiela Baez.
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December 29th, 2018

12/29/2018

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A group of 15 young people, among them 3 present scholarship students and 3 former graduates of the Fundacion A. Jean Brugger, finished an intensive Advanced Excel course on December 7 at the Polytechnical University of Nicaragua in the city of Rivas.
This is an educational project that came about as an opportunity to strengthen and complement the profesional knowledge of present and former scholarship students of the Fundación A. Jean Brugger. This special educational program will give our scholarship students additional training which will enhance their professional and educational skills.
This project was developed in partnership with the Polytechnical University of Nicargua UPOLI’s Rivas regional headquarters thanks to a more than 12 year agreement that the Fundación A. Jean Brugger has had with UPOLI Rivas.
The Fundación A. Jean Brugger congratulates all of the students who took advantage of and successfully completed this educational opportunity.
And, most importantly, the Foundation is very grateful especially with Kathleen Brugger to promote this educational initiative and all of the individuals and foreign organizations, as well as those Nicaraguans who helped in any way, to make this collaboration for educational development become a reality for so many of our students from San Juan del Sur. 
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The students in the Economics group finalize their 2018 social project.

12/29/2018

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Last Monday, December 3, the students studying Economics completed their community service project.
During this activity the children who participated in this social project enjoyed a very happy morning in the pool of the Hotel Pelican Eyes Resort.
This activity was iniciated to increase and stimulate the children’s willingness to participate and support the activities of this group.
This social initiative called Bio-clean is concentrates on the empowerment of environmental education, benefiting 22 children from the Camilo Ortega neighborhood.
Our scholarship students presented information on the protection and care of the environment with the objective of promoting continued support in the development in the care and preservation of the environment.
This group of students consisted of: María José Sánchez, Ingrid Pérez, Lileth Jiménez, Aliana Quiroz,Cesar Romero, Casta Rivera, Karina Chavez and Ruth Rostran,
Fundacion A Jean Brugger thanks and congratulates the students of economic sciences for their good work and dedication to their social project, since they showed great interest in teaching children to care for the environment, we feel very proud of our students.
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Students of the Intensive English Course participate in the fourth event of Speed English.

12/26/2018

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Last Friday, November 30, 2018, the fourth Speed English event was held, where our students from the scholarship program and other young people from San Juan del Sur, who also studied English, participated.
This event was held at Escuela Adelante for 2 hours, students were able to practice what they learned in the intensive English course that began in July of this year.
Fundación A. Jen Brugger appreciates the participation and support of the English speakers for helping our students to practice their English.
We thank Susana Field, Hannah Zucker and Kathleen Brugger for helping to organize this event and Jaime Hunter, Director of Escuela Adelante, for giving us the space to hold this event and for participating in the Speed English event. 
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Graduation of Miss Casta Rivera, a student of the Scholarship program of Fundacion A. Jean Brugger.

12/24/2018

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On Friday, November 30, 2018, Miss Casta Margarita Rivera Espinoza, who studied at the Universidad Hispanoamericana, UHISPAM-Rivas, graduated with a degree in Banking and Finance. Miss Casta Rivera has held a scholarship since 2014 from the Fundacion A. Jean Brugger.
​We wish you the greatest success in this new professional stage. The Fundaciona A. Jean Brugger gives the most sincere CONGRATULATIONS to this young professional and her family. We especially want to mention the immense gratitude to the sponsor of this scholarship Mr. Kenneth Olsen.
Thanks Kenneth Olsen for believing and trusting in the project of Fundacion A. Jean Brugger, "Providing educational opportunities for human and community development".
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Fundación A. Jean Brugger is registered as an NGO with the government in Nicaragua and is based in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
It is a 501(C)3 organization registered in the United States of America as The A. Jean Brugger Education Project, EIN: 04-3558890.  
The organization's state of record is Massachusetts.