The Beginning...

Approximately 5 kilometers Southwest of Masaya, Nicaragua’s Central Park there is a quiet village that few people know about. It consists of about 60 homes, 250 people, excessive amounts of dust as well as dogs, roosters, and pigs. It has one water source, a well located at the end of the second street, which serves the entire community. With no public lighting, the residents resort to barbed wire as a primary defense of their homes. And to top it off, the unpaved dirt roads make it impossible to commute with ease and comfort.

Welcome to the Villa Betania, a village named after the late daughter of an American man, who constructed a majority of the houses in her memory. It is a place we have come to know well. A place we are forever tied to. For it is here, where BECA.org began.