by Jeri | Mar 13, 2016 | Community Development, Haiti, Nicaragua
This has been a month full of planning and preparation as we get ready for our next two training trips. Nicaragua in April: Visiting the two groups of new Peer Educators that we trained in December, we’ll see how their trees are doing and what they’ve been doing with...
by Jeri | Jan 9, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
This is Mercedes. She lives with her husband, Renee, in the village of Cristo Rey, Nicaragua. A village that’s right across the dirt road from the city dump. Most of the adults in this place make their living as garbage pickers. Their houses are pieced together...
by Jeri | Dec 30, 2015 | Community Development, Education, Nicaragua
This was one of the BEST Strong Harvest trips ever! In early December, we (SHI founders Rick and Jeri, and board member Sue Ellen) headed back to Nicaragua, partnering with Leader a Lider (Leader to Leader) to provide Moringa Peer Educator training in two very...
by Jeri | Apr 2, 2014 | Nicaragua
Our trip to Nicaragua in March was filled with stories of change and hope. In each of the places we returned to for follow-up visits, we heard reports such as, “Since I’ve been eating moringa, I have enough energy to work.” “My children are healthier and their...
by Jeri | Jan 20, 2014 | Community Development, Nicaragua
The men have taken to “cooking for a cause” at the Luz y Vida (Light and Life) Church in Leon, Nicaragua. Each Sunday, one of the men cooks a HUGE pot of soup using his own recipe. He then adds lots of fresh moringa leaves just before the soup is ready to...
by Jeri | Jan 18, 2014 | Community Development, Education, Nicaragua
Carolina’s Nicaraguan village – Cristo Rey – is located right across the dirt road from the city dump. This where most of the adults, and even some of the children, make their living as garbage pickers. Many people, especially the children, suffer...
