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 availableCLICK 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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