Ortega Says Nicaragua’s New State Bank Won’t Forgive Debts

By admin | Jul 16, 2009

You think that this might be a good way to help stimulate the jobs and resources in the country if he did forgive the debt insteead of burden them with high interest..
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the country’s new state development bank won’t forgive debts to poor farmers as the Sandinista government did in [...]

Raising Roofs In Nicaragua

By admin | May 28, 2009

A caravan of nine Toyota SUVs started out in the morning. Before nightfall three had developed a flat tire. That’s how bad the roads are in northern Nicaragua.
Msgr. Francis X. Schmidt, the retired pastor of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Bridgeport, who was in expedition on May 7, wasn’t able to do anything about those [...]

By admin | May 22, 2009

Next Wednesday, eight Gulf Shores High School students will leave for Corn Island, Nicaragua to deliver much needed supplies that they have been collecting over the past year.
Areil Cash, Chad Peterson, Sarah Bosarge, Trent Manskow, Madeleine Cassiday, Dylon Zorn and Maggie Ronan will leave May 27 for Corn Island, Nicaragua. Not pictured but going on [...]

Clinic inspired by Bucknell Brigade serves thousands

By admin | May 12, 2009

Here is a wonderful article on some of the care that Bucknell Brigade that is helping in some of the criticle care that is needed in some of the poorest parts of the country.
Original Article HERE
Jim Ritter, Class of ‘04, walked through the door of the health clinic in Nueva Vida one morning in March [...]

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