Nicaragua: Matagalpa

Tue, 06/12/2012 - Wed, 07/25/2012

Region:	Theme:	Length:
Central America	Safe Water and The Environment	6 weeks

AMIGOS partners with CARE Nicaragua in the Department of Matagalpa. Volunteers collaborate with CARE’s MICUENCA initiative, which focuses on securing safe water and the protecting the environment. Volunteers work with local youth and community members on projects that are a part of each community’s long term development plans.

Our work with CARE Nicaragua

AMIGOS directly supports CARE’s MICUENCA initiative which focuses on securing safe water and the protecting the environment. AMIGOS Project Staff and Volunteers work with local youth and community members to carry out the following activities:

I. Projects related to safe water (reforestation, watershed management, etc.)

II. Extracurricular activities and youth fairs focused on safe water and the environment.

III. Community-based Initiatives (CBIs): Volunteers collaborate with their host community in the implementation of a small-scale community-specific project (e.g. creation of a chicken cooperative, repainting a school, or supporting a project in the community’s long-range development plan)

About our Partners

CARE Nicaragua

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women, because equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

CARE began operations in Nicaragua in 1966 and has continued working there, uninterrupted, despite political turmoil and civil war. During the 1960s and 1970s CARE Nicaragua worked mostly in education and primary health care. During the 1980s CARE expanded its focus to include safe pesticide use, agricultural development and water-system construction. Since 1990, CARE has embarked on a far-reaching rural water, sanitation and preventive health program, and has expanded its activities in sustainable agriculture and natural resources management.