Nicaragua > A father waits for a medical consultation at the Dispensario San Francisco de Asis in Managua, a center staffed by volunteers and funded through private donations. VIDA equips the center with antibiotics and medical supplies. Maria Mercedes Arguello, the center's founder states: "VIDA has been an invaluable resource for the dispensario. We simply don't have the means to provide all the medicine and supplies necessary to treat our patients. The support of VIDA has strengthened our program and allowed us to care for many more patients."

While VIDA has been sending medical iad to Nicaragua since 1996, VIDA-Nicaragua was established in 1999 to better serve the needs of the country, as was the case after the devastating Hurricane Mitch, in which relief efforts VIDA was actively involved from the start.