News From the Field: A Project Schoolhouse Newsletter
December 2025
Greetings From Our Executive Director
¡Hola amigos! After a year of hard work, persistence, and dedication, we’re thrilled to announce the completion of Phase 1 of our multi-community water, sanitation, and school project in La Ponsoña, Nicaragua.
This project is a major milestone for Project Schoolhouse. It demonstrates our team’s ability to build large-scale infrastructure by leveraging a single water source to serve seven different communities in one unified effort bringing life-changing water, sanitation, and education to more families than ever before.
Ponsoña Project Update: We Did It! Phase 1 is Now Complete
Thanks to extraordinary support and a lot of hard work, Project Schoolhouse and the communities in the La Ponsoña region have successfully completed Phase 1 of our ambitious two-year project to reach seven remote communities with clean water, schools and sanitation. Together, we’ve made life-changing progress.
Our 2025 accomplishments include:
– Two schools received critical additions and repairs, finished just in time for the start of the 2025 school year.
– Four communities now have clean water systems and sanitary latrines, bringing health, dignity, and opportunity to 74 families.
Monitoring and Evaluation, in partnership with UT Austin
What gets measured improves; what gets measured and reported improves dramatically. Project Schoolhouse and students in The University of Texas at Austin Public Health Program take it to heart.