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After a full day of orientation, the students set out on a two-day service project in connection with an organization called Un Techo para mi País. Techo is an organization that works with destitute families to help build them more sustainable housing. The program, organized and run by university students, requires the family to be involved with the construction so that they can be a part of the process as well as give the volunteers a chance to make a connection with the family. Our goal was to build two houses in two days in an area called Barrio…
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We’re happy to announce that 11 Goshen College students arrived safely Wednesday night in Nicaragua – all together, in one piece and with their luggage – after a very long day of travel. In fact, some reported that they never went to bed the night before they left Goshen! From the airport we went to “Casa Blanca,” the house where we’ll be doing orientation and also the home of Compañeros, Inc. Compañeros is a social enterprise NGO (non-governmental organization) that organizes and facilitates short-term volunteer service and cross-cultural learning experiences in Central America. Our country coordinator, Dalena, works with Compañeros,…
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I’m happy to report that all the students are safely back from service in good spirits and good health, with lots of stories to share and lots of energy pointed towards returning back to the States. Tomorrow is our wrap-up day, devoted to final project presentations (every thing from cooking Nica style, to malnutrition, to Nica’s system of medical care…), reflecting on service (and telling more stories), celebrating birthdays, and starting to think about re-entry. It’s going to be a full, and good day.
Gallo pinto is the national dish of Nicaragua; however, the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts have different recipes. Here are approximate “recipes” for each. Buen provecho!
After traveling through some of the northern mountains and plains of Nicaragua early last week, it was a pleasant change of pace to simply hop into a microbus on Friday (July 2) to visit Reuben at the Centro de Salud clinic in La Concepcion (in the department of Masaya), and then to hop in a taxi for the short trip to the biological research station located on the shores of Laguna de Apoyo.
Thirteen students and six programs were included in this tour of Estelí, Matagalpa, León and Managua; our travels started early Monday morning (6/28) and concluded late in the day on Wednesday (June 30).
Teaching English (all grade levels including a class of English teachers) in Diriamba, and planting frijoles and attending nation-wide farm cooperative workers’ organizational meetings provide a broad overview of two students’ service assignments.
[student journal, posted with permission] Since Friday (6/11) marks the half-way point, for this journal, I’ve decided to do a review of the first half by making a list of ten ways I have changed, in the past six weeks.
Although Tropical Storm Agatha had us wondering on Wednesday, May 26, if traveling 4 hours by bus into the northern mountains was going to be a good idea, the rainfall lightened significantly on Thursday, and we took off as planned on Friday morning (May 28).
