Santa Rosa Fund

Summer 2010 volunteer placement with the Santa Rosa Fund in Colegio Público Santa Rosa, Managua, Nicaragua – Summary Report.  Two volunteers, Amy Haworth Johns and Rachael Wright, running the Computer Workshop July – September 2010.

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The Spanish project to seal La Chureca rubbish dump, establish a recycling plant and build
houses for over 200 families who live there continues apace.

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This is just a short report to put you up to date with what is happening at the Quincho Barrilete Association (AQB). It is necessary because there have been many changes at the organisation and we shall need to consider the continuation of our funding (extremely limited though it is) in the future.

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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.

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PROYECTO “APADRINAMIENTO A LAS NIÑAS, NIÑOS Y ADOLESCENTES ATENDIDOS POR LA ASOCIACIÓN QUINCHO BARRILETE”

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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 slicing away at the mountains of rubbish and taking it elsewhere.

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