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NSC and the Unite Foundation support the Literacy and Adult Education programme in Managua

Local government workers unloading a donation of paper for the programme from the NSC pick-up. The paper was bought using funds from the Unite Foundation.
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Jairo Navarro, Co-ordinator of the Literacy   and Adult Education Programme, and Enrique Armas, Secretary of Managua City Council, receive the donation from Julian Guevara, NSC fieldworker.

Voluntary teachers participating in the first training workshop in preparation for the new school year.

Register Now for Innovations in Education Study Tour to Nicaragua
15th – 25th August 2010

Photo: Young people training to become literacy campaign facilitators.
Credit: Jenny Matthews

In Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Americas, raising educational levels is key to overcoming profound poverty, the result of a dependent, vulnerable economy based on raw materials and cheap labour. National and local government, trade unions, social movements and NGOs are developing innovative community initiatives, making Nicaragua an exciting microcosm of alternative education to ensure the basic human right of education is accessible to all.

Find out more by participating in our study tour!
You will be able to exchange ideas and information on innovations in formal and informal education, and participate in the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the famous 1980s Sandinista Literacy Crusade and the culmination of the current literacy campaign.
For details and how to apply >>

For an update on the Rio Coco Literacy Project follow the link >>

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) works with Nicaraguan civil society organisations and social movements working to overcome social and economic injustice and facilitates solidarity links with their UK counterparts.  NSC promotes two way solidarity that contributes to shifting the balance  in Nicaragua in favour of those who are most impoverished.  This is carried out through networking, organising events, disseminating information, campaigning activities, and coordinating study tours and delegations to Nicaragua and speaker tours in the UK.

We co-produce a magazine, Central America Report, and produce occasional briefings. NSC also supports Wales NSC, our local groups and 13 towns and communities with twinning links in Nicaragua. Since NSC became a charity our work with trade unions and other work on Latin America is carried out through the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) >>

NSC is a membership organisation with offices in London and Managua and a network of affiliated individuals and groups in England, Scotland and Wales.