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 Get
involved!
There are many ways that you can help:
Visit us in Nicaragua
There is dinner in the center all
week-nights except Wednesday at 6pm. Please arrive at
5:45pm and ask for Gladys or Sara.
You can find directions to Carita Feliz
here.
Barrio Sonja
Barrio Sonja is a new
project in Carita Feliz. Based on support from Sonja and Eigild Christensen in Ålborg,
Denmark, Carita Feliz will build a new barrio or
district of Granada.
Sponsor a class
The center currently has 6 sponsored classes, where
children without financial means are given the
opportunity to go to school.
Here is how it
works.
Buy
fair trade Nicaraguan coffee
As one of the main exports, Nicaragua depends
heavily on sales of its coffee in foreign countries. In
recent years, the
price paid to coffee farmers has
fallen dramatically on the world market, while the price
charged to European and American consumers has remained
the same or risen.
What's the cause? There's too much
coffee in the world. Brazil, the world's biggest
producer, has been spared from frost for many years and
countries, such as Vietnam, have been encouraged to grow
more crops for export by the IMF and
the World Bank.
 The
FLO
was set up to co-ordinate the work of national labelling
initiatives, such as the
Fairtrade Foundation (in the UK).
Max Havelaar is probably the best known fair trade
coffee producer that supplies Denmark. For more
information,
Global Exchange is a good source of news updates on
the coffee situation.
Make Poverty History
Poverty is a hot topic and 2005 has been announced
as the year where the Western world finds a solution to
poverty in the third world. The largest campaign is Make
Poverty History.
More than 200 charities, campaigns, trade unions,
faith groups and celebrities have joined together in a
coordinated campaign to eradicate global poverty. As it
states on their website, "WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR. In 9
words... TRADE JUSTICE. DROP THE DEBT. MORE AND BETTER
AID."
www.makepovertyhistory.org
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