Dear Friends, Volunteers and Supporters,

12 years ago Peace and Hope Trust began distributing mosquito nets in the desperately poor and flood-prone jungle village of Esperanza, which was notorious for its voracious clouds of mosquitoes, especially during the rainy season. After volunteers spent some nights in this village, which lies along the Rio Grande de Matagalpa, they found it lived up to its reputation as a haven for this deadly and annoying insect. During one of our first visits to that community, while providing relief after a flood, a woman asked our volunteer team for a mosquito net, and it became clear that distributing nets could be a tremendous and life saving blessing to a community by curbing the spread of Malaria and Dengue Fever.

Since then, every year during the rainy season, we go door to door in a village to distribute nets and have provided between 800 and 900 nets to the villages of Esperanza, Company Creek and Makantakita, as well as to isolated homes along the river. During the last two years, our Nets for Neighbors program at North Shore Community Baptist Church has provided sufficient funding to increase the number of nets we deliver to these communities. Many thanks to the church members who purchased a net (or several) for someone in these jungle villages. We plan to reach many other communities with nets as we continue our work along the river in the years ahead. If you would like to raise funds for mosquito nets in your church, civic group or community, we would be grateful for your help. Please contact Roger Drost (rogerd@peaceandhope.org).

Blessings to you all,

Peter Coleman and Roger Drost


For 12 years PHT US has been distributing life saving mosquito nets on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast

Dear Friends, Volunteers and Supporters,

During this time of trying financial times for our ongoing work in Nicaragua, I thought it would be appropriate to focus on something positive and recognize the sacrifice and service of a dear friend of our organization and a person we have been working with deep in the jungles of Nicaragua for nearly 10 years, Mrs. Lila Bendliss.

Lila is a Miskito speaking Nicaraguan and a Registered Nurse. She is greatly respected by our volunteers and she is very talented at treating the medical/health needs of some of the poorest and most isolated people of the Americas with compassion, dignity and great efficiency and skill. She is from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and accompanied our Summer 2011 volunteers to help us provide holistic support to the nearly forgotten people we serve. In the days that Lila worked with us in July she treated roughly 160 patients with medicine and supplies mobilized in the United States. While Lila is fighting diabetes and high blood pressure, and with an injury to her leg from falling on her first day in Company Creek, she pressed on with Peace and Hope to serve her people along side of us. We are all inspired and blessed by her abilities and her heart for her people.

Your donations and support help us pay people like Lila, purchase medicine and medical supplies and make our medical interventions possible. There is always a lull in giving after our summer projects and we are feeling the pressure of the economic downturn now more than ever before. Our commitment to the isolated and impoverished people of Nicaragua continues to be implemented daily. Your ongoing support is ever-so-valuable and needed and without it we would not be able to serve these forgotten and disenfranchised people.

Blessings to you all,

Peter Coleman
Resident Country Director


Lila in Company Creek attending to patients who would otherwise have no access to medical care or medicine

Dear Friends, Volunteers and Supporters,

We are pleased to officially announce that Roger Drost has accepted a position with Peace and Hope Trust as our U.S. Field Director. Roger has been serving in Nicaragua for 13 years and served as a Trustee with Peace and Hope Trust since 2002. We are excited about the future of our work and grateful that Roger has made this significant commitment to our ongoing service to the poor and isolated people of Nicaragua.

We would also like to say a very special "thanks" to North Shore Community Baptist Church for extending their facilities to Peace and Hope Trust. Roger Drost will be setting up the new Peace and Hope office at the NSCBC facility in the weeks ahead and we are grateful for their generosity and support.

We thank you all for your support and want to remind you that there is always a lull in giving after our summer projects. Our commitment to the isolated and impoverished people of Nicaragua continues to be implemented daily. Your ongoing support is ever-so-valuable and needed and without it we would not be able to serve these forgotten and disenfranchised people.

Blessings to you all,

Peter Coleman
Resident Country Director


Roger Drost
working on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

Dear Friends, Volunteers and Supporters,

I have just returned from a terrific trip to the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Peace and Hope Trust had the privilege of hosting a great team of volunteers from VA and MA. We were able to accomplish more than expected in our trip. We delivered mosquito nets to Makantakita and some isolated families living on the Rio Grande de Matagalpa. We conducted an amazing 4 day VBS program and hosted a Nicaraguan nurse to treat many (perhaps hundreds) needy patients in Company Creek and Esperanza.

The bulk of our manpower and resources went into the construction of a solar powered radio outpost and building a cement path through the mud to the new Moravian Church which the small community is in the process of building. Don't miss the photo of our inauguration of our radio outpost below!

We thank you all for your support and remind you that while our summer project is over, our commitment to the isolated and impoverished people of Nicaragua continues to be implemented daily. Your ongoing support is ever-so-valuable and needed and without it we would not be able to serve these forgotten and disenfranchised people.

Blessings to you all,

Peter Coleman
Resident Country Director


Celebrating the opening of the radio outpost in Company Creek

Dear Friends, Volunteers and Supporters,

This week marks the beginning of our Summer 2011 Projects! We will be hosting a group of more than 15 people deep in the jungles of Nicaragua to serve the most isolated and impoverished villages on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast: Makantakita, Esperanza and Company Creek.

We are approximately $3,800 short of our project budget and we need your financial help! We will be building a solar powered 2-way radio communication outpost, a cement wharf, delivering mosquito nets and Miskito Bibles, conducting a VBS program and hosting a small medical team to reach out to our dear brothers and sisters in dire need.

Without your support our mission into the jungle to serve these humble people and to do our small but important good works and Christian charity would not be possible. Please consider a last-minute gift to this important project and partner with us as we press ahead with this life-transforming project. Thank you!

Blessings to you all,

Peter Coleman
Resident Country Director