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Managua’s Landfill Families

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:07:44 +0000

Letter from Tuesday April 6th 2010 Guardian Weekly reader Maggie Barclay describes what life is like for the hundreds of families who live at La Chureca – a landfill site by the side of Lake Nicaragua. You can also view the original story on the Guardian’s website here. http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/48fox1gev4levjh.pdf?t=1277290959

Santa Rosa Fund Newsletter Issue 35

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:53:17 +0000

http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/91o0rzgef4levbk.pdf?t=1277290195

Quincho Barrilete Association report for 2009 – in Spanish only

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:48 +0000

PROYECTO “APADRINAMIENTO A LAS NIÑAS, NIÑOS Y ADOLESCENTES ATENDIDOS POR LA ASOCIACIÓN QUINCHO BARRILETE” http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/ih70p1rmn24cc5c.pdf?t=1269007267

Report by Gill Holmes from the Los Quinchos project on Managua’s La Chureca dump

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:12:51 +0000

The most noticeable thing about La Chureca on this visit is that the Spanish project has finally started and was much in evidence from sign boards that have been planted here and there, building work, presumably of the recycling plant that will provide people with employment, and most impressive of all, huge earthmoving equipment ponderously [...]

Santa Rosa Fund Newsletter Issue 34

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:27:05 +0000

http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/h31yj418tipm80.pdf?t=1265188660

Ken Sue Santa Rosa Computer Report 2

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:37:52 +0000

Sue and Ken Martin from Somerset, long-time supporters of the Santa Rosa Fund, spent July and August this year training members of staff at the school in Managua in use of the computers which were provided to the school in 2006 by the British Embassy in Costa Rica and by the Santa Rosa Fund. The [...]

Visit to the Los Quinchos Project in La Chureca

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:34:41 +0000

En route to La Chureca, Carlos Vidal, the psychologist who works on the Los Quinchos management team and I stopped by the Quaker House to pick up Lillian Hall who would accompany us on the trip. Lillian is the in-country representative for PRONICA, a US organisation that supports different organisations in Nicaragua, among them Los [...]

Santa Rosa Fund Newsletter Issue 33

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:36:37 +0000

http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/1rq72xnp23cbt5az7jv6.pdf?t=1244805950

Support the Santa Rosa Fund through your website

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:46:45 +0000

You can now show your support for the Santa Rosa Fund online, simply cut and paste the code below into your web page under the <body> tag. The script will place a banner in the top right hand corner of your website that links back to us. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.santarosafund.org/ribbon/ribbon.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.santarosafund.org">Santa Rosa Fund</a></noscript>

5 short movies “Una Ventana en la América Central”

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:58:17 +0000

Doug Specht spent two months in Nicaragua and Honduras in summer 2007, most of which was spent as a volunteer at the Santa Rosa School in Managua. During his time there he put his experiences on film which on his return he edited, creating an impressive record of the school, Nicaragua and some of the [...]