Building Community
Housing for Health and Hope
Together For Health
PT and OT for Special Needs Patients
Cafe Social
Employment for People with Disabilities
Building Community
Comunidad Connect has improved health, security, and hope by building homes for over 30 vulnerable families in Nicaragua since 2018. Adequate shelter is often out of reach in the rural highlands of Nicaragua, and single mothers, those with special needs, and the elderly face the greatest obstacles.
Building and modifying homes creates jobs, fosters dignity for families struggling to cover their basic needs, and contributes to community resilience. These family assets create generational change.
Comunidad Connect can build a family of five a new home for approximately $3,000. We also do home modification projects likes bathrooms, ramps, and other improvements for special needs patients and their families.
There are many families waiting for their projects to be funded. Your generosity today helps us reach more of these families tomorrow!
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Together For Health
The Together For Health program has provided a continuum of care for special needs patients in Nicaragua for over 10 years. Using this experience and knowledge, Comunidad Connect is designing training modules for our community partners, health promoters, and caregivers in the Dominican Republic to access technical support and best practices related to the care of people living with special needs.
We are raising $20,000 to pilot this training program in 2024. This amount will cover costs for the training and monthly home visits for 50 patients year round in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
This unique program is supported by graduate students from Capella University (Social Work), University of Alabama (Public Health), and Georgia State University (Occupational Therapy). We plan to expand this program to cover the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean, and Central America over the next 5 years. To learn more, please reach out to jon@comunidadconnect.org.
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Cafe Social
2024 will also see the launch of our first social enterprise in the Dominican Republic, in partnership with our good friend Tio Antonio from Nicaragua. We will replicate his world renown model of a coffee shop managed by deaf people that will be a sales point for high-end hammocks to the robust tourism industry in Puerto Plata.
Puerto Plata is the Dominican Republic’s primary port for cruise ships and can receive up to 72 cruise ships a month. Tens of thousands of tourists arriving monthly represent enormous opportunities to generate economic impact for the deaf community and for Comunidad Connect programs in general.
We are currently raising $15,000 to ship the initial batch of hammocks from Nicaragua and sign a 6-month lease. This will allow us to prove the concept and identify a permanent space to purchase for phase two – a fully functioning hammock workshop and coffee shop operated by deaf people in Puerto Plata.
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