Pictures and Slideshows
The following FLASH slide shows are now available.
The project photos below take you to the Flash slide shows.
Finishing the second school - July 2007
We are trying to catch up on all the things that have happened in the past 18 months. Please keep checking back as we work to update the site. There have been many wonderful things such as finishing the second school in 2 years, helping to start 2 radio programs - one in Jalapa with PIEAT and one in La Chureca with the youth, many workshops for teachers as well as the general community, more efficient stoves, and home organic gardens. As always, we try to bring education with these programs.
Summer Teen Delegation - June 2007
Spring Poverty Matters Delegation - March 2007
Our own private visit - November 2006
Completing the school - July 2006
Children Raise Money for School Furniture
On July 1, 2006, 4 children, Jonathan and Taylor Watkins, and
Reana and Alana Young-Morrison raised money for the Nueva
Esperanza school project by setting up a table in front of King
Soopers in Gunbarrel, CO. They sold organic Nicaraguan coffee,
pine needle baskets from a Jalapian women's coop, cloth grocery
bags and organic cotton T-shirts. In a little over 2 hours, they
raised almost $300, enough to buy almost 1/2 of the furniture
needed for the Nueva Esperanza school.
See more
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Immigrants Rights Rally in Boulder, CO
On May 1, 2006, millions of people around the United States
marched for immigrant rights. Among the places where people
marched was
Boulder, CO.
Thousands of people rallied and then marched from downtown
Boulder up to the University of Colorado.
See photos
A visit to La Chureca
The Spring 2006 delegation visited
La Chureca.
La Chureca is the largest landfill in Managua. It is home to
more than 1500 people, some of whom have been living there since
the late 1960's. For the residents, unemployment is basically
100%, drug use is extremely high (glue being the default drug)
and prostitution starts with children as young as 9 years
old. The first half of the slide show is from an outing in which
we took about 40 children from La Chureca to Lake Granada. The
second is from our visit to their home, the landfill known as La
Chureca. There is a documentary about the
Los Qunichos
school project and the people of La Chureca currently in
post-production. Check back for updates.
See photos
Building a school in Nueva Esperanza
The Spring 2006 delegation started a school
project in Nueva Esperanza. Nueva Esperanza is a small
community of about 200 people. It is located about 6 miles north
of Jalapa close to the border of Honduras. They have no
electricity and until the fall of 2005, they had a single water
tap in the center of the community for all to share. Their
community leader, Don Santiago, is an incredible man who has
helped to lift this community. Because of his respect in the
Jalapian Valley, Nueva Esperanza was chosen as the site for the
first school built by PIEAT.. This
project was largely made possible by the efforts and fund
raising by a group of students from Naropa University in Boulder
Colorado.
See photos
4 day Education Workshop in Managua
From April 1 through April 4 2006, Debbie Young gave a 4 day
workshop on early childhood develop. The workshop was
attended by 6 members of PIEAT and over 20 teachers from the 4
different Nicaraguan cities.The workshop was partially funded by
UNICEF
See photos
Building the Nueva Esperanza Water Project
The planning for a water system for Nueva Esperanza
was started in 2002 and
construction was finished in the Fall of 2005. The project was
started by
The Boulder/Jalapa Friendship City Project
and later became a
joint project with
La Agencia Adventista para el Desarrollo y Recursos Asistenciales
(ADRA). ADRA oversaw the actual construction and provided food
for the community while they built their own water system.
See photos
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