For kids living in extreme poverty in Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua, life can be unforgiving. Regular meals often don’t exist. Grueling physical labor tears at their growing bodies. In the fight for survival, education is barely an afterthought.

But over 20 years ago PeaceWorks founder Jim Burchell made a commitment to never turn his back on the children working on the streets of Managua. On one of his first trips, he met Mirna Sanchez who was just then starting a new program to provide education, meals, and basic necessities for exploited children. Asociación Inhijambia was born. And 20 years later, former street kids are graduating from college and starting their professional careers.

Join us on this journey to create a new path for exploited children in Nicaragua. On Saturday October 28th at 6pm, Inhijambia’s co-director, Carlos Ernesto Molina will speak to the PeaceWorks’ community as part of an East coast speaking tour.,

For the past seven years Carlos Ernesto Molina has served as Co-Director of the Asociación Inhijambia, a non-profit organization founded in 2002 to serve the thousands of children who live and work on the streets of Managua, Nicaragua. Carlos and his team provide a wide range of vital services for these at-risk children and their families — education, healthcare, jobs skills training as well as arts and cultural programming. He brings a wealth of both managerial and practical knowledge, as well as an important voice in the discussion about the realities facing the next generation of Nicaraguans.