We are a group of faculty, staff, and students of James Madison University in Virginia. Last year we went as a group sponsored by Alternative Spring Break. This year we went as community members and not sponsored by the university.
In three months, we raised over $36,000 for the projects we implemented over our spring break. We spent a week living and working with the poorest people in our hemisphere and have just returned, standing in solidarity with them. We funded a variety of projects in these two communities, and helped with construction while we were there. We purchased land and built a school, a house for a family, four latrines, and installed sinks in 13 different schools. We used biointensive-farming strategies to bring food to those who don't have, taught lessons on germs/hand washing to kids at six different elementary schools. Distributed 60 suitcases worth of donations to 120 of the poorest families in the community, and spent the week completely immersed in the Nicaraguan culture putting faces to statistics and seeing first-hand how two thirds of the world lives.
The students would say this was a life-changing experience that taught them more than they would ever learn in a college classroom.
Location of Chacraseca, Nicaragua
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