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History
Since 1991 Peace and Hope Trust has been bringing peace and hope to Nicaragua through a
plethora of development efforts. What began in the early 1990s with an inner-city orphanage in
the heart of Managua has grown into a tremendous ministry affecting thousands
of Nicaraguans from Managua all the way to the Atlantic Coast.
Inspired by a direct challenge from Dona Violetta de Chomorro, the President of
Nicaragua at the time, and Great Britain’s Ambassador to Nicaragua we took on
the formidable challenge of linking the isolated Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
with the more affluent west. And so, in 1995 a team of volunteers dared to
establish a communication link between the isolated villages of Nicaragua and
larger cities. The team of brave volunteers chose hovercraft as their means of
making this connection. To prove the effectiveness of the hovercraft,
they traced the route of Nelson, the great British Naval Captain who suffered
his only defeat in Nicaragua in 1780. However, the group of volunteers was not
defeated 215 years later! They successfully crossed Nicaragua and established
a desperately needed nexus between the two very separate and isolated regions.
Since the hovercraft project in 1995, our projects have broadened. The hovercraft
revealed the true isolation of hundreds of thousands of people living on the Atlantic
Coast and we adjusted our mission to serve them better. Since then we have been
implementing a vast array of development and ministry projects that reach all sectors
of society, from infrastructure and education to medical and spiritual needs.
Peace and Hope Trust maintains full-time, year-round operations on both the Atlantic
and Pacific Coasts of Nicaragua , and employs more than thirty Nicaraguan staff.
To date, hundreds of Peace and Hope Trust volunteers have visited the remote villages
of Eastern Nicaragua delivering urgently needed supplies and encouragement.
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