Santa Rosa Fund

Interview with Miguel de Castilla, Minister of Education
By Karla Jacobs, November 24

At the end of November Tortilla con Sal had the opportunity to talk with the Education Minister, Miguel de Castilla Urbina, about the work he and his team have been carrying out over the last 22 months. De Castilla is a sociologist, educator and education administrator with vast experience in all three fields. He has published over 500 articles and dozens of books about the problems, achievements and challenges of education in Nicaragua and the region. He was vice minister of Education during the first sandinista government of the 1980s.

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On this second visit I was accompanied by Martin Mowforth, the Membership Secretary of the Santa Rosa Fund which is based in Tavistock, Devon. The Santa Rosa Fund has been supporting a school in the Santa Rosa neighbourhood (hence the name) in Managua for the last twenty years and more recently other educational projects in the El Viejo municipality in the department of Chinandega, west Nicaragua. The Santa Rosa Fund made a donation to Los Quinchos’ Chureca project through Wales NSC and given that Martin was visiting Nicaragua he was keen to see the project.