Compas de Nicaragua

"promoting cultural exchange and improving lives through service trips and sustainable community development"

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Whats New?
Coffee for Sale: Howling Monkey Organic Coffee is now for sale! Click here to find out more.
The Nicaragua Experience: Read Compas board member, Douglas Haynes' essay, 'The Lake at the Bottom of the Bottom', originally published in the summer 2011 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review
The Fall 2011 Newsletter is now available CLICK HERE!!

 
WIA member, Socorro, teaches Douglas how to make tortillas - courtesy of Ashley Beyer
What is Compas de Nicaragua?

Compas de Nicaragua (Friends of Nicaragua) is a NH 501(c)3 non-profit organization that formed in the early 1990's. 

Compas' mission is to promote cultural exchange and improve lives through service trips and sustainable community development work in urban and rural Nicaragua.

Compas is currently focusing on two projects.  "Women in Action" (WIA), Compas' first and longest running project, is comprised of a group of 40 women who are organizing health and education projects in the settlement of La Primavera (Springtime); a poor, urban neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua.

Compas' is also supporting a
sustainable living project called Brothers and Sisters in Reconciliation in order to provide increased income to small farmers, reduce deforestation, protect habitats, and reduce the affects of global warming.  This project is focused on the rural town of La Paz, Nicaragua.

Compas organizes service trips to La Primavera throughout the year that work on Compas' projects, learn about Nicaraguan culture, history and current living conditions. Volunteers and service groups will have the opportunity to visit both the urban and rural communities of Managua and La Paz, and work on both of Compas' projects. 

Compas' Field Supervisors, Ana Narvaez and Michael Boudreau, work full-time in Nicaragua overseeing project work and receiving service groups.

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