About Us

ADELANTE, meaning progress and moving forward, has been an idea in progress for about two years. Recently Mateo Garibaldi (Executive Director) and Chris Garibaldi (assistant executive director) purchased a house with property in Leon, Nicaragua with the sole purpose of building a school equipped with two classrooms. We are currently working on fundraising and hope to raise enough to build the classrooms by this January. Our goal and mission is to provide "education without borders". The first and continuous program that we will have are English classes. We would like for at least half of the students to be on full scholarship and the other part of them assisted with various partial scholarships.

Our hope and goal is that the lack of money should not be a reason that education is not accessible to those people who have the desire to be a part of ADELANTE's outreach programs. Our future goals are, once the English education program is more established, to have micro lending programs accompanied with business management courses. We also plan to start or at least be a part of local youth programs in order to enhance the community. Additionally, our board of directors have very good contacts within the medical community in Washington state, and there are also thoughts of sending down doctors, nurses and specialists to provide much needed medical services at no cost to the local residents.

As you can see, we all have many ideas and hopes for this organization. If you have any ideas or suggestions, or would like to volunteer in some capacity please feel free to contact me.

       - Mateo Garibaldi (Executive Director)