Nicaragua is a small country in Central America.  It has four million people and two million of these are children less than 15 years old.  This country has a variety of social problems caused by civil war, natural disasters, and slow economic development.  These things have directly affected many Nicaraguan families who now live in severe poverty without access to clean water, electricity, education, medical care, social security, etc.  A lack of jobs has resulted in a large amount of children trying to find other ways to survive.  They roam the streets, where they can easily become victims of all kinds of abuse, violence, and often become involved in delinquency, prostitution, drug abuse, gang activity, and more.  There are approximately 700,000 children that live in these types of situations, and from those, 300,000 work in the streets.  Many are orphaned by the war and many are handicapped.  These children are the future of Nicaragua and they need the support of people like you.