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Building communities, protecting the earth:

Celebrate World Environment Day 2012 in Nicaragua!

Visit Nicaragua with us and discover just how much this small  Central American country is doing to prevent environmental disaster. 1 – 14 June, 2012

This trip to Nicaragua is part of NSC’s work promoting solidarity between UK and Nicaraguan community activists and environmentalists working on community solidarity, increasing food self sufficiency and protecting the environment. 

Participants will spend one week living in a rural community and working on an organic gardening programme, and a second week visiting community and government food security and environment protection programmes. The climax of the trip will be participating in the National Fair for the Earth to celebrate world environment day (see photo. Credit: CJA)For more details >>
 

Solidarity shopping >>

Do your solidarity and fair trade shopping here. We sell Sandino and skeleton t-shirts, bamboo socks, fairtrade footballs, books, CDs & DVDs, fairtrade Nicaraguan coffee, mugs, cards, calendars, fairtrade jewellery and more!

For children we have fairtrade Guatemalan clothing, books, t-shirts, CDs etc. We aim to post orders within one week of receiving them unless we are awaiting new stock.

Photo: Skeleton snorkelling t-shirt (in 8 sizes)

ALBA, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples  of our America

New briefing: 'Another way is possible: fair trade, cooperation, and solidarity’   >>

Nicaragua is one of eight member countries of ALBA, a regional cooperation initiative based on social, political and economic integration between the countries of Latin America and the  Caribbean.

For information on how ALBA is being implemented in Nicaragua to address poverty and social exclusion follow the link >>
 

Photo: Venezuelan doctor, part of Operation Miracle. Over a million people with sight problems have been treated by Cuba medical teams and local medical staff as part of Operation Miracle in Latin America, Asia and Africa. This includes 75,000 Nicaraguans living in poverty.  

Education >>

From 2007 – 2009 an adult literacy programme was carried out in Nicaragua using a Cuban method called Yo si puedo (Yes, I can). In June 2009, an independent UNESCO commission declared that the level of illiteracy in Nicaragua had fallen from 27% to 4.73 percent, qualifying it as a country free of illiteracy.

Municipal tree nursery workers on a literacy course. Credit: Jenny Matthews

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) works with Nicaraguan 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.