Nicaragua Network

The Nicaragua Network has received the following announcement from Compas de Nicaragua:

Compas de Nicaragua: promoting cultural exchange and improving lives through service trips and sustainable community development
 
www.compas1.org
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Compas de Nicaragua is currently organizing service trips and internships to Nicaragua for 2016.  Compas offers trips to churches, high schools, universities and organizations.  Personalized trips are also available to groups, individuals and families.  Our unique trips offer volunteers the opportunity to live and work side by side our Nicaraguan partners on sustainable community development projects. 

The main goal of our service trips is to build friendships and promote cultural exchange while working together with our Nicaraguan friends to help improve the lives of impoverished people.

Trip participants live with host families, work on community projects, participate in a variety of activities, and enjoy the natural beauty of Nicaragua. Service work includes projects such as, chicken coops, backyard gardens, and bio-gas systems. Enrichment activities include English and Spanish classes, arts and crafts, soy food preparation, and workshops such as reproductive health, inter-family violence and organic farming. Participants also meet with schools, health centers, and organizations and take trips to volcanoes, lakes, and the Pacific Ocean.
 
Since the early 1990’s, more than 1,000 people have traveled to Nicaragua as part of service trips organized by Compas. Service trips play an important role in educating students and professionals, and provide a two-way exchange of skills, knowledge, and experience. Trip participants are offered a unique and powerful opportunity to experience life the way the extremely poor experience it. Often times, participants’ experiences are life changing.

"I want to give my immense gratitude for the experience Compas gave me.  I knew going in that any amount of time in another culture would be profound, but I had not expected to fall in love so deeply with the people, and the language and the land.  I was not prepared for its lasting effects on my life: for the depth of human connection and relationships, for the at-homeness I felt, for the eye-opening to the complexity and interrelatedness of social, political and environmental issues.  I look forward to continuing to support Compas' incredible work any way that I can."  Amanada Vaine, Intern, Summer 2014

For more information, please follow this link for a service trip packet.  To see a short video about our service trips, please follow this link.

If you are interested in traveling to Nicaragua or in organizing a group trip, please contact me.  We can offer discounts for groups.

Michael Boudreau
Executive Director
Compas de Nicaragua
msboudreau@compas1.org
www.compas1.org   
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