Surf Nicaragua
Beside the humbled experience in helping to build a high school in a remote coastal region in Nicaragua with Surf For Life and Waves of Hope, I had time in the early morning to do some surfing.
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- First day of surfing in Nicaragua and the waves are great!
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- Yeah this is fun
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- De, James and I are exhausted after the surf
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- Let’s get some footage from the board
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- Pop up
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- Yeah some more surfing 🙂
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- Oh almost caught this wave 🙂
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- Morning surf is the best!!!
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- It feels amazing being on the board early in the morning
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- Yeah 🙂
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- Surf the wave
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- This is how I feel after surfing: Exhausted but happy 🙂 Here: James
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- Surfing the volcano 😉
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- Volcano Surfing! Yeah this will be fun 🙂
Volcano Boarding in Nicaragua
Near Leon, Nicaragua I got the chance to participate at a Volcano Boarding. After a one hour drive from Leon we hiked one hour up the volcano. Then it was time to go 500 meter downhill. Wow what a great fun experience 🙂
Here some impressions from the daytrip:
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- Active Volcano in Nicaragua
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- What carefully this picture in the back a horse is “parking”
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- Street sign
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- Local fruit market in Leon
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- Mmmhhh delicious food
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- Buy local 🙂
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- Trafic jam
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- This is the vocano we are going to board today
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- Colorful bird
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- Volcano Surfing! Yeah this will be fun 🙂
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- First we have to …
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- … climb up the mountain
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- 1 hour hike to the top
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- Almost there
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- Moon like landscape
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- Jump 🙂
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- The creater
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- Getting ready
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- Ready for take off!!
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- Let’s get some footage for the video
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- Wow and down we go wow
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- Surfing the volcano 😉
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- Street impression
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- Great plaza in Leon
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- Street art at the university
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- Street art
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- Wow saw a lot of horses as part of the normal traffic on the street
Helping to build a school in Nicaragua
In April I got the chance to participate at an volunteer project from “Surf for Life” and “Waves of Hope” in Nicaragua. Thank you for your continuous support and donation for this amazing project. Now that I have been there I can tell for sure that your donation will have a great positive impact on the community there in Nicaragua.
It was such an humbled experience to see how people, who have only little resources and infrastructure, try to improve there lives by education and working hard. In the community where the high school is now build there is currently no economic system (no supermarket, no other services were people could spend there earned money) so all the money is currently going to the city which doesn’t help the community. Unemployment in Nicaragua is between 50 and 80%(!!!) depending on the age group.
The new high-school is also used as a vocational training center to educate the students to become bakers, mechanics, hairstylists or organic farmers. Giving them the opportunity to grow their own economic community system in the future.
If you have the chance support Waves of Hope and thus this community. Great small things are happening here!
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- Flying to Managua
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- Arrive in yesterday …
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- First part of our volunteer group for the week: Melanie, Katie, James, De and Pooja
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- Jamie telling us about Nicaragua and the project “Waves of hope” Amazing!!!
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- This is who I love spanish teaching in an relaxed and playful environment
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- Here som facts about the High school building
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- Open air shower, I love this!
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- Yoga hut for the week
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- Our group get’s ready for the work week
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- Time for our first work day
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- Thumbs up for your support for this project
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- Work for day 1 is to help make the floor for one of the class rooms
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- Great picture at the computer and library building
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- Hard work but happy 🙂
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- Cement making process
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- Sunset in Nicaragua
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- Pooja your were my life saver with those delicious nuts on the work site
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- Impression from the work site
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- Jamie and Ben the founder of this awesome project in talk with one of there employees
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- Work site impression
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- Project for the day …
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- Basic housing in the community
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- Primary school where in the afternoon English is tought
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- Eneyda was my first conversation partner in the english class
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- Cristel it was a pleasure to meet you.
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- Yeah some more surfing 🙂
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- Morning surf is the best!!!
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- It feels amazing being on the board early in the morning
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- Yeah 🙂
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- This is how I feel after surfing: Exhausted but happy 🙂 Here: James
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- We are ready for another day at the work site
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- Stay curious and ask lots of questions (here in Nicaragua)
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- Those kids will be going to the high school one day
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- Ok, no waste system in Nicaragua so everything is burned …
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- Ok this was very hard work but De kept us in a great mood with his “clean” jokes 🙂
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- Pooja shows us what we did yesterday (those 3 classrooms)
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- Ok and this is the work for today those other 3 class rooms 🙂
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- Yeah Jump 🙂
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- So humbled that I could participate at this project
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- Picture is almost done at the library/computer lab at the high school
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- Corinne runs the kids club every Tuesday and Thursday in the El Coco Loco
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- Wall in El Coco Loco
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- Dana on a horse
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- Plumeria my favorite flower
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- Have lots of quality time with my partner and friends (here in Nicaragua)
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- Awesome walk with Pooja on the beach for sunset
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- Last dinner with the group
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- Great pizza
Help to build a school
Just received another contribution and now the current status is 1.515$US. Thank you so much for  all your support to this awesome project in Nicaragua.
Only 10 days left till the project starts and it would be great if you could support. Only 485$US are missing to archive the fundraising goal. Can you help? Where else do you get the possibility to donate and see the impact of your donation happening right away!
Here the link to the donation page: Â https://www.surfforlife.org/give/Sven-Koble/
Postcard from Around the World
Wow I got so many Postcards and would love to send them out. Here is the deal:
Support the high-school building in Nicaragua with a donation and you receive a Postcard from around the world
Surf for Life
Today I would like to introduce you to Surf for Life, an non profit organization sponsoring educational and community driven development projects in coastal communities mainly in Central America. But here is first the story how I found this organization …
Back in November 2012 in Germany I was about to get ready for my 6 month around the world trip and at the workplace they were setting up a table soccer tournament. Together with my friend we wanted to participate and eventually came up with our team name: “Surf for Life”. We thought that was a perfect name for our team as she is passionate about Kite-Surfing and I love surfing.
So in the evening I thought: Let’s do a google search for this name and there it was “Surf For Life” an non profit organization sponsoring educational and community driven development projects in coastal communities mainly in Central America. Check out there video:
And in Spring 2013, they have a new volunteer project in Nicaragua and what a coincidence I’m in Central America by this time and thus I was very happy to contribute to the project by volunteering one week at the End of April 2013 to this project to help to give hope to many kids to get a high school education and thus help there communities to thrive and develop in the future.
All costs for the volunteer week are already covered by me and Now I need your support. I’m fundraising to help with the costs of the construction and materials and wanted to know if you would like to help me with a donation? The goal is to raise at least 2000US$. If you can spare some money to help to build a school in Manzanillo, Nicaragua and help that kids get a possibility for a basic education then please donate via the following site.Â
Thank you in advance for your support! I will keep you updated about this project.