Decades Of Solidarity With Santo Tomas Nicaragua

Since 1988 our local community has built and sustained a strong relationship with a sister community in Nicaragua. The Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association (TSTSCA) has built peace and across thousands of miles of distance by interacting face-to-face with back-and-forth delegations and by collaborating on practical projects in Santo Tomás. While the Reagan Administration was making war on Nicaragua, people in Thurston County and Santo Tomás forged relationships of mutual understanding and respect. Bypassing governments, we just went ahead and did what was needed -- and what was right. In 2011 a delegation of six students from The Evergreen State College spent ten weeks of Spring Quarter in Santo Tomás conducting hands-on activities, and several other Olympia community members spent two weeks in July there.

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