When I heard about University of Pennsylvania bringing “Technology-Based Learning to Nicaraguan Community School for Children of Coffee-Farm Workers”, I couldn’t help but cringe and feel sympathy for the small community that is about to be a subject in a research project.
There is a misguided, well-intentioned belief in the Western world that whatever is good [...]

One of the amazing things about going back to Bluefields to visit Verbo year after year is that we get to see the changes over time. While changes in general have been slow and steady over the 4 years my church has been sending teams, one of the most dramatic changes has been the increase [...]

Guardian news just released a report that corroborates the observations and accounts I have been hearing on the ground in Nicaragua. With the increase in food prices, the poor are the ones being affected the most. With more income being spent on food, this leaves little for anything else.
In Bluefields, it costs $0.75 USD for [...]