The Corner of Love Christian missionary organization has two groups scheduled to leave for northern Nicaragua.
The first team of 75 will leave Feb. 12 and return Feb. 20. The second team of 52 leaves Feb. 26 returning March 6.
The trips are organized by Tanya Amador, the executive director of the organization, and her husband Nelson. The couple lives in Maple Valley with their four children.
The mission is based in San Ramon and has been serving the neighboring region for a decade. Corner of Love started with one or two trips a year, and has expanded to five.
The current group will bring medical and dental supplies and treatment to the region and other essentials of life.
The current group of 127, the largest Tanya Amador has assembled to date, includes doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, a pastor and a pediatrician and many volunteers with no medical or dental skills.
The team expects to treat more than 25,000 Nicaraguans. Tanya Amador left for Nicaragua Feb. 2 and she wrote in an e-mail the patients served “pay an offering of 10 cordobas (less than 50 cents) and the money collected is donated back to the village to benefit a water improvement project such as a rustic well, water faucet at a school, piping in water from a neighboring village.”
Another event planned on March 5 is a ground-breaking ceremony for the mission’s leadership school and medical clinic in San Ramon near the La Lima River. U.S. Ambassador Robert Callahan is expected to attend the ceremony.
The organization purchased a 2-acre site in 2009 and intends to build a 10,600 square-foot building on the land.
According to Amador, the school is planned for 12-18 year-old students and the programs will include English, computer and Bible studies.
The medical clinic will have a surgery center, five medical examination rooms, an eye examination room, a pharmacy and waiting area.
Amador stated the building’s entry way will be a site for artisan programs where Nicaraguans can learn to “sew and create items that are sold at our dorm and beyond.”
