Posted in Leon1 - 07/18/2014 by Alice Honig & Jamarc Allen-Henderson
Hello, this is Jamarc and Alice speaking for today’s Community Action Project (CAP). We arrived in La Goyena to start the full day session of the CAP. At the beginning, the process was slow and a little bit unorganized, but throughout today we were able to pull...
Posted in Bonao - 07/22/2014 by Dominic Diaz
Hola Everyone! My name is Dominic and I had the special pleasure of being the leader of the day on poverty day. An alternate name for today is living on $1 per day. This means exactly as the name suggests, each Glimpser experienced a whole day just like someone who...
Posted in San Juan De La Maguana - 07/24/2014 by Ms. Elman
Today was a mix of work and play. In the AM after the infamous Onaney Desayuno (Breakfast) we went back to Hotel D’Angel to work on our Community Action Project Plans. When we were last at Saboneta we asked various families questions in regard to what they needed...
Posted in Esteli1 - 07/20/2014 by Taylor Redditt
Today we finally got our chance to visit the Museum of Heroes. We were supposed to visit this museum on our first full day here in Estelí but we did not get the chance to because it didn’t fit into our time schedule. To start off our day we went to breakfast as usual,...
Posted in Jinotega - 07/21/2014 by Kimberly Solorio and Sabrina Wu
Hola, it’s Kim and Sabrina from San Francisco, CA! Today we walked to a local fair-trade coffe production center/cafe (the iced coffee was muy bueno). We were blessed with the opportunity to witness the taste process of pure coffee and sample some delicioso...
Posted in Matagalpa1 - 07/18/2014 by Leslie and Jydalis
(Sorry for the delay–the internet was being repaired at the hostel yesterday.) Today was our 1st CAP delivery which was very exciting. We started off splitting into two groups; one group did the shopping while the others went to Los Pipitos to start organizing....
Posted in Esteli2 - 07/25/2014 by Mikai Johnson Harris
Anticipation rang in the air as plans for this day were revealed. This morning, we reviewed the words of Confucius on the topic of poverty. The quote read, “In a badly governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a well governed society, wealth is...
