Lecture: "FEDICAMP Re-Greening Northern Nicaragua"

Location: Palamountain Hall: Emerson Auditorium

Date: 11/08/2010

Time: 7:00 PM

Speaker: Miguel Marin and Jim Burchell

Description:
Miguel ángel Marín Vásquez, President of FEDICAMP, and Jim Burchell, Director of PeaceWorks in New Jersey, will speak on their organization's involvement with rural Nicaraguan communities, emphasizing the environmental, community development and gender issues faced in this third-world country.

PeaceWorks is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that works to aid the peoples of the Americas and support progressive change by empowering people to act for justice throughout the Americas. PeaceWorks has sponsored Miguel Marin's visit to the United States to help inform the public of FEDICAMP's work first hand. FEDICAMP is a Nicaraguan nonprofit organization founded in February, 2002 that promotes the holistic development of rural communities through the implementation of sustainable programs and projects. FEDICAMP seeks the full and long-term participation of families as their principal vehicle of the social development process. FEDICAMP fosters agricultural development by promoting programs and projects on sustainable agriculture, food security and the environment, that expand peoples' livelihoods and diet. They achieve this by developing technical, methodological and organizational capacity among community leaders and organizers through a "peasant to peasant" peer learning approach.

Contact:
Kim Delli Paoli
518-580-5053