RSS
Home
Beginnings of a nonprofit in Nicaragua
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
Michael Judd had been living in Latin America for seven years when he found himself in Costa Rica working on a coffee farm. As he picked coffee beans, he realized that many of the other workers by his side were Nicaraguans who had traveled South for seasonal work. Michael said that what impressed him the most was that many of these Nicaraguans came with their entire families. There were sometimes four-year-old children working alongside their grandparents.
Michael was inspired to visit Nicaragua for the first time in 1997. He said that he fell in love with the character and warmth of the people. "I admired their strength and solidarity, how they lived and worked together as a community."
Besides the people, Michael also fell in love with the landscape of Nicaragua. He is a permaculturist, one who believes in setting up self-reliant communities. The word permaculture mixes the ideas of permanent agriculture and permanent culture to create conscious ecological design.
In Nicaragua, Michael saw the potential for building a community that could abate some of the problems of Nicaraguans, including impoverishment and malnourishment. To read more about the non-profit that Michael started in the year 2000 in Nicaragua, check out the link: http://www.projectbonafide.com/, and read the following articles:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-28081-SF-Living-Abroad-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Project-Bona-Fide
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-28081-SF-Living-Abroad-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Mano-a-Mano-tours
Related Articles:
Add a Comment
