Estelí Women’s School

During the month of April, the Estelí Women’s School had a total matriculation of 130 students for our women only classes held three nights a week with 130 women students of whom over 70 benefit from a scholarship. Attendance over the last month has averaged 88%. Our current teaching staff are:

Sayda Yadira Flores Toruño, Director

Milexa Guadalupe Miranda Zepeda, English

Luz Danelia Ruiz González, Spanish

María Teresa Martínez Rayo, Natural Sciences

Kerilan de los Ángeles Toruño Brenes, Social Sciences

Gustavo Adolfo Sanabria López, Assistant Director and Social Sciences

Mercedes del Socorro González Romero, Natural sciences

As part of its integral personal development approach to women’s education the course has included weekly talks on preventive health, feminine hygiene, importance of self-esteem, domestic violence as well as starting and running a small business. Our prevenitve health program supports the Estelí WOmen’s School providing free gynecological care to all the women students by a doctor from the local municipal health center who is able to provide timely follow up to tests such as papanicolau examinations.