Partnering for Progress
My Rama friend Ervin Hodgson will be graduating with a master’s degree (environmental biology with an emphasis in eco-tourism) this July in Bluefields, Nicaragua. He has invited me to be there with him. Progress Tools has helped him here and there along the way to get to this point. He is the first of the […]
Some of Jimmy’s friends and relatives took a trip to look at Jimmy’s farm on Cane Creek and do an assessment to try to figure out what they could do.
In August 2011 I spent a week in the area around Bankukut and the neighboring region called Cane Creek. I got to know a new friend named Jimmy. Jimmy and I have been working to expand his chocolate orchard and connect his crops with a market in the US. Jimmy was killed by a neighbor. […]
The handcrafts business we funded in Matagalpa is now producing income… some for the ladies who run the business and some to pay back the loan. Anything that gets paid back will be reinvested in future business ventures in Nicaragua.
The handcrafts business in Matagalpa and the bakery business in Managua are now funded thanks to our generous donors.
It was close but we managed to pull together enough for Freddy to purchase a commercial bread oven for a new bakery business. Now we still need more contributions for the final stretch before Freddy can launch a working bakery business in Managua. Once the business is up and running Freddy will start repaying the […]
Thanks to a generous donor (with an interest in textiles) we are able to fund a project that Reynaldo will be administering in Matagalpa, Nicaragua for the manufacture of useful handcrafts to be sold locally.
Ervin is working on a project for chocolate production. He visited a hard working chocolate farmer friend of mine (Jimmy) from Cane Creek (and one of the community leaders of Bankukut). Jimmy has 50 chocolate trees at his farm.
Progress Tools is helping him with some transportation costs. I left a message for him to take to our Bankukut friends when he gets there.
To complete his master’s degree at URACCAN Ervin Hodgson is going to travel the length of Rama Territory.