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ALBA, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples  of our America

For information on how ALBA is being implemented in Nicaragua to address poverty and social exclusion follow the link >>
 

Photo: Venezuelan doctor, part of Operation Miracle. Over a million people with sight problems have been treated by Cuba medical teams and local medical staff as part of Operation Miracle in Latin America, Asia and Africa. This includes 75,000 Nicaraguans living in poverty.  

Nicaraguan Fairtrade visitor impresses Scottish Parliament >>

Solidarity shopping >>

Do your solidarity and fair trade shopping here. We sell
Sandino and skeleton t-shirts, bamboo socks, fairtrade footballs, books, CDs & DVDs, fairtrade Nicaraguan coffee, mugs, cards, calendars, fairtrade jewellery and more!

For children we have fairtrade Guatemalan clothing, books, t-shirts, CDs etc. We aim to post orders within one week of receiving them unless we are awaiting new stock.

 

Education >>

From 2007 – 2009 an adult literacy programme was carried out in Nicaragua using a Cuban method called Yo si puedo (Yes, I can). In June 2009, an independent UNESCO commission declared that the level of illiteracy in Nicaragua had fallen from 27% to 4.73 percent, qualifying it as a country free of illiteracy.

Municipal tree nursery workers on a literacy course. Credit: Jenny Matthews

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) works with Nicaraguan organisations and social movements working to overcome social and economic injustice and facilitates solidarity links with their UK counterparts.  NSC promotes two way solidarity that contributes to shifting the balance  in Nicaragua in favour of those who are most impoverished.  This is carried out through networking, organising events, disseminating information, campaigning activities, and coordinating study tours and delegations to Nicaragua and speaker tours in the UK.

We co-produce a magazine, Central America Report, and produce occasional briefings. NSC also supports Wales NSC, our local groups and 13 towns and communities with twinning links in Nicaragua. Since NSC became a charity our work with trade unions and other work on Latin America is carried out through the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) >>

NSC is a membership organisation with offices in London and Managua and a network of affiliated individuals and groups in England, Scotland and Wales.