Santa Rosa Fund

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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Visitors to the website who wish to gain an idea of how life survives on Managua’s main dump may wish to follow the three links to videos given below. One of them is 9 minutes long, but the other two are just 3 or 4 minutes long. The group which made the videos is not in any way associated with the Santa Rosa Fund, but their videos show the Los Quinchos project which is supported by the Fund (through Wales NSC) and several of the kids who benefit from that project.

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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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