Most Significant Change - Siuna/Nicaragua 2010

Farmer Salvadora Guardado Lagos of Siuna, Nicaragua tells about the Most Significant Change (MSC) in her recent life; how she joined the alternative Farmers' Market with no commercial experience, learned, saved, and was able to establish her own shop, thus improving her family's financial situation.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• ActionAid
• Nicaragua
• Siuna
• MS
• Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke
• Central America
• development
• poverty
• trade
• solidarity
• women
• farmer
• market

[jjrr64]

finally after so many years all those years of teaching them how to produce and prepare themselves to be autosufficient is paying off,I was woked so hard and i risk my life for them,i am glad to know that some of my efford in siuna,Wani,Labu,Uly,is giving fruits of my life,greeting from canada I say hello to everyone there who work Midinra,and the national bank,this is me and you all know who Am I

[jjrr64]

for so many years we tried so hard to organized these people to be in co ops,we assisted them for so many years but sometimes it was the goverment fault cause we used to give then all the food so for them was easy just to waited every month for this help and they did not have to worry to work and produce,some of my friends were kill there in siuna,Pedro valle,galeano la zamba,Rogelio (jimmy cliff) while we were working in this co ops the contra umbushed them kidnapped them and they got killed

[fazle76]

Good story but need to have some study to measure the impact in the family as well as surroundings.......... Much appreciated.........