| Administrative History | Allocations: 1973-1981, 1989; programme spending in 1994/95; see later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
In 1972 Save the Children (SCF) sent £5,000 for emergency relief in Nicaragua after a major earthquake hit the country's capital, Managua. In December 1972, SCF sent a team to Managua to run a nutrition, health education, and feeding programme for child earthquake victims. At the request of the Nicaraguan government, SCF established long term projects in the country, including a day care centre for children of refugee families and a rehabilitation centre for injured and disabled children, both based at Jinotepe. The work of the rehabilitation centre expanded to include care of orphans, children with polio, and children with mental disabilities. The centre was handed over to the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health in 1973. During the 1970s SCF established feeding centres, worked at the paediatric ward at Santiago hospital, and set up the Dispensario Monimbo, Masaya.
SCF was the first international agency to send a medical team into Nicaragua after the overthrow of the Somoza regime in July 1979. SCF set up clinics to treat malnutrition caused by food shortages in the country. These emergency clinics were handed over to local people at the end of 1979. At the request of the Nicaraguan government, SCF set up a long term nutrition programme in the country. |