Santa Rosa Fund

In May 2007, Virginia Gómez Guillén retired from her post as headteacher at the Santa Rosa School in Managua due to ill health – she had had heart problems for some years. Until that time, the Santa Rosa Fund had known no other headteacher at the school since the work of the Fund began in 1988. She was the instigator of everything which the Santa Rosa Fund had managed to do at the Santa Rosa School since 1988.

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James Watson was one of the Santa Rosa Fund’s volunteers in 2007, teaching computing to the staff at the Santa Rosa School in Managua. He returned to the UK to finish his final year at Sussex University where he obtained a First Class degree and during which he wrote this essay on the effectiveness of small non-governmental organisations in Third World countries.

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Nick Hoskyns has lived and worked in Nicaragua for many years and here offers his interpretation of the problems within the FSLN (Sandinistas).

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Chuck Kaufmann writes in ZMAG about how development workers and solidarity colleagues should interpret the current serious rifts and persecution within the Sandinista party in Nicaragua. He also writes for the Nicaragua Network Hotline.

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