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Dina Rubey BMC ‘09 is blogging from Nicaragua as part of her CPGC Internship. She will be focused on Post-Conflict Democracy & Community Building through a theater arts program at the Esteli Municipal Library.
Cristina Morais ‘11 will be spending 10 weeks in Nicaragua (7 weeks in Managua) this summer. While in Managua she will be working with the Quaker organization, ProNica. She will be teaching basic computer skills to the daughters of sex workers in the hopes that they won’t end up in “the world’s oldest profession.” The skills they acquire will hopefully help them in the future with getting secretarial jobs or jobs in one of Managua’s many cyber-cafes.
Laurel Pellegrino BMC ‘08 will be volunteering at the Acahualica Women’s Center in Managua assisting the nurse, writing grants, and doing other publicity for the center.
Jane Seymour ‘10 will be working in Esteli, Nicaragua at Mama Licha’s Clinic, a birth center that offers pre- and post-natal care for the women and children of the community. While there she will be collaborating with two professors from Yale’s School of Midwifery to help in their research projects and to develop her own regarding the impact of Nicaragua’s Civil War on the health care that women pursued.
Maggie Bishop ‘10 will be working with Los Quinchos, which is a multifaceted program for former glue-sniffing street children. One of its projects is a girls residence in San Marcos, which houses about thirty girls, entitled the Yahoskas. Los Qunichos serves more than 200 children in residential programs and even more in street outreach programs. Maggie will be working with the girls residence in San Marcos, helping with school work, water safety skills, and doing various activities with the girls (playing games, reading, dancing, etc). She hopes to encorporate art into their daily activites and I has raised $1,650 for their small library.