Ascential Language & Arts School (ALAS)

Ascential Language & Arts School (ALAS) is a bilingual arts education program located in the US and Ometepe Island in Nicaragua. 100% of our funding goes to provide housing/meals & travel expenses for teachers, supplies/materials for classes/students and tools/materials to build our school & teacher housing on Ometepe. ALAS was founded December 2013 and our call is to provide English/Spanish language classes to the communities of Altagracia, Merida, San Jose del Sur, El Congo and San Ramon while using dance, music, art, theater, martial arts and math as ‘carrier’ forms.
ALAS is now recognized as a seasonal, permanent fixture in Nicaragua with solid future prospects. They have two pieces of land secured on the island and over 250 attending students traveling from six villages. In 2019, the building projects continue to provide jobs for ten local families and the school itself provides residencies for at least three touring, American, professional artists. They will continue training our four local, full scholarship teaching assistants who will be able to provide their own classes for income starting in 2020.