Where your gift goes
What a gift pays for.
Each program already covers part of its own costs. Sponsorships go to the students, class tuition pays for teachers’ transportation and snacks, and volunteers’ trip fees pay for the summer building week. This page shows what is left over: the costs that only gifts can cover.
Building Projects
Bathrooms in Jadán
Already covered: volunteers’ trip fees pay for the summer building week: their lodging, meals and transportation, and the projects the team builds that week.
What a gift adds: more. With more funds we can take on more homes, both alongside the volunteers during the build week and through the rest of the year. A gift buys more materials, and it lets us hire another maestro and local workers, so the money also goes to families in Jadán as wages.
Where your gift helps:
- $1,500 builds one more bathroom
Materials, the maestro’s labor and the trucking up the hill, for a bathroom like the ones we finished in 2026. - $800 buys a biodigester
Where there is no sewer line, a biodigester is what makes an indoor bathroom possible. - $5,000 gets us to Jadán for a year
About 30 round trips through the year to plan the projects, check on the work, meet with local leaders and bring visitors to see it, plus a truck for the month around the build week. - $800 rents a truck for a week
For hauling tools, crews and lighter materials, like biodigesters and plumbing, between work sites spread across the mountainside, in the weeks before, during and after the build week. - $75 pays for one round trip to Jadán
One of the trips that keep the projects moving between build weeks. - $30 buys a meal with leaders and residents
When we bring people to see the projects, we sit down with the families and leaders we work with. - $40 hires a second maestro for a day
Another skilled builder means another project can run at the same time, during the build week or between trips. - $25 hires a local worker for a day
Work for someone in Jadán, and one more pair of hands on the site. - $200 equips the crew
Trowels, hammers, gloves and pliers, plus the two-way radios we use between work sites. - $120 supplies Kids Camp
Art and game supplies for the camp that runs alongside the work week.
Nomads Scholars
Students in Nueva Prosperina
Already covered: every sponsorship goes to the student, with a small stipend for the program directors.
Where your gift helps:
- $2,000 runs the program for a year
Transportation for home visits, communication with families and sponsors, and bank fees. - $170 covers a month
One month of home visits, calls and the paperwork that keeps each sponsor connected to a student.
Language Project
English classes in Llacao
Already covered: student tuition pays for teachers’ transportation and snacks.
Where your gift helps:
- About $145 prints a semester of books
Fifteen copies of each of our eight titles at every level, at about 30 cents a book. We print three semesters a year. - $500 to $1,000 pays for each semester’s celebration
A field trip or party for the students at the end of every semester, three times a year. - Classroom supplies
Markers, blank Moki Cards and the other everyday materials the classes use.
Nomads of Hope
The General Fund
Already covered: nothing; these costs belong to all three programs at once.
Where your gift helps:
- $1,800 keeps the books for a year
Accounting and tax filings for a registered nonprofit. - $1,500 keeps us online for a year
The website, online giving, email and the other subscriptions we run on. - Where it is needed most
Insurance, translation, and the costs nobody plans for.