Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
” … my recent experience with ProNica in Nicaragua had helped me to understand the concept of solidarity.” MFS teacher and Nicaragua trip leader Andrea Robinson blogged about her Intensive Learning experience on the ProNica blog: Moorestown Friends School Students and Casa del Niño...
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Dispatch from Nicaragua: “We are leaving our hostel at 8:00 am today for the airport, flying to Panama City and then from Panama City to Washington, D.C. And then hopefully at MFS by 5:00 am tomorrow morning.”...
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A history of Nicaragua — notes from a lecture by Aynn Setright Nicaragua is divided into three regions, the Miskito coast in the Caribbean named for indigenous people who live there, the central region and the Pacific coast. 1503 — Christopher Columbus came to Nicaragua and the Conquistadores came down from Mexico in search...
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Thursday, March 31st Today we woke up to our last wonderful breakfast at the hostel. We were quite reluctant to leave the friendly staff and footpath to the lookout tower, which provided many of us a safe haven for reflection and self discovery. We climbed into the bus for a 5-hour drive through the...
Continue readingMarch 30, 2016 We completed our part of the outdoor gazebo at the Casa del Niños by leveling the floor, which will remain a dirt floor until they get more funding to pour concrete, and then stamping it down to compact it. The poles that will hold up the ceiling beams we painted were...
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Today, after breakfast we walked again to Casa del Niño. We mixed rocks, sand, cement, and water to pour into the holes we made yesterday. Some of us removed nails from wood and others carried rocks to be put in the ground. The beams were still being painted with a few more to go....
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This morning we went to the Casa Del Niños art school. We did many different service projects, such as painting beams, shoveling old footings so that new foundation can be put down, cutting rebar, and then making them into squares for rebar foundations. Then we went to a women’s craft collective. There we learned the...
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These kids are working hard. We are so proud of them....
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We started today off with a plentiful breakfast filled with pancakes, fresh fruit and yogurt! After breakfast we started our journey to a new location three hours away. Along the way we made some meaningful stops and learned mucho information! Our first stop of the day we went to a lake and took a boat...
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“I chose this trip because I like doing global service.” “I am looking forward to a new culture.” “I am very excited to see a way of life different than my own and see the nature of Nicaragua.” “I chose to go to Nicaragua because last year I went to Costa Rica, and I...
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via Pronica Clothes Lightweight pants, skirts, t-shirts, blouses. We do not recommend bringing more than one pair of shorts, as shorts are not normally worn here and expose one to more sun and bugs. Same goes with tank tops. During meetings with organizations, it is best to not dress too causally. Definitely dress comfortably,...
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