Projects
PG/L focuses its efforts in three main areas:
TALLER XUCHIALT ART SCHOOL for YOUTH
  An example of primitavistic art done by one of the former art teachers. |
While this is not a community in the usual sense of the word, it is a community of approximately 12 young artists who have organized, and teach in, a private art school for any children interested in attending. They offer weekend lessons in art history, in folkloric dance, but above all, in painting, primarily in the primativistic tradition of Nicaragua.
The art school not only provides a laboratory for the young teachers to refine their own craft and learn administrative and pedagogical skills, but it serves to help children treasure their own artistic cultural heritage.
 Children creating art. |  Two members of the folklore dance class. |
 Painting by Nestor Danillo Morales Rojas , 13 |  Painting by by Teresa Eugenia Perez Zelaya, 12 |
 (L to R) Soany, Gladys, Lenin and William doing a group exercise. |  Carlos Gutierrez and Marlon Moreno working on the action plan and calendar of activities. |
THE COMMUNITY OF SANTA ROSA
 A new mother and her 3-day old newborn at the Casa Materna  Midwife workshop in Santa Rosa |
The small village of Santa Rosa lies northwest of León. PG/L has had an ongoing relationship with the village for 20 years.
Curently Santa Rosa is the location of three interrelated initiatives.
First: Casa Materna is a temporary residence for expectant women who, given the challenges of transportation, benefit from a place to stay near the medical center before giving birth.
Second: The Program of midwifery is currently in transition to more of an educational effort, to aid pregnant women, many of whom live considerable distances from the medical center in Santa Rosa.
Third: A Nutritional Lunch Program for children.
Children at lunch
THE COMMUNITY OF EL PORVENIR
 The entrance to the community is also the entrance to the Natural Reserve San Cristobal/Casita |
PG/L is collaborating with two other NGO's to serve this small coffee-growing community in the mountains northeast of León. One of PG/L's future projects will be a small loan to the cooperative to enable them to plant new coffee plants, replacing old ones that have a much lower production rate
The second of PG/L's El Porvenir current projects is to offer a supporting role in the construction and installation of a water supply system for the village.
Other iniatives include:
1) Community Infrastructure Grant Fund
Through this relatively small fund communities can receive small grants for local projects. A total of $800 is awarded on a cycle of every four months.
2) Scholarship Program Grants are awarded to youth for their expenses to attend school at various levels. For example, plans are underway to make awards to children who require financial assistance in order to attend the art school, Taller Xuchialt.