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Employee of the Month!
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| Ramon Humberto Baca
Position:
Farm Production Manager
Age: 29
Meet our staff member Ramon Baca, commonly known as "Baca". Baca has worked with Amigos for the past 6 years overseeing our Agricultural and Micro Enterprise Projects. He has also been an Amigos Scholarship Student for the past 5 years and this year we are proud to announce that he will graduate this year with his degree in Agricultural
Engineering. Baca says that he loves his job and "being able to help people, especially those who have no education or hope for a good job" because he "has come from the hard life they live".
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Upcoming April Event!
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Pedal for the Poor:New Orleans Style!
The New Orleans Amigos  will be hosting their second annual Pedal for the Poor on Sunday, April 5th! The event is sure to be good times for all who attend, with fun games for kids, lively music and yummy food provided by Raising Cane's and Lucy's. The bike ride is a total of 25 miles, starting and ending in Audubon Park. Proceeds will again support our elementary school feeding centers, which provide an average of 550 meals to students each day. Please click here to read more about our cause and learn how you can be involved!
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Amigos for Christ Newsletter
March 2009 |
Greetings!
These past few weeks have been filled with exciting endeavors in several of our project areas. Goals are being reached, people are succeeding and we want you to know everything that is happening with your Amigos in Nicaragua. Read about the family eagerly settling in their new home at Villa Catalina and about the organic innovations at our thriving Amigos farm. On the home front, we look forward to our upcoming Pedal for the Poor event, which takes place in New Orleans on Sunday April 5th! |
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Washington, N. C. Mission Team Builds New House for Local Family!
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Villa Catalina Gains One Fine New Home
During the first week in March, the Amigos mission house was filled with a vibrant group of North Carolinians. Despite the planning and packing that typically precedes a mission trip, the week was a culmination of months of fundraising. The team set themselves the ambitious goal of bringing in enough money to fund the building of a new house in Villa Catalina. Since Villa Santa Catalina was first built in 2005-2006, many of the families are growing out of their houses. The new home is a welcome addition, as mom Mariluz, dad Arlen and little Kelling are able to move out of the cramped house which they shared with Mariluz's family. Keep in mind that the family survived Hurricane Mitch and just 5 years ago, resided in the Chinandega city dump! This mission group from North Carolina, pictured above, came full circle with them, by helping to construct the home alongside Arlen's family.
Come and replicate their experience with your group. Villa Catalina has space for more homes and you can add a happy new chapter to its short history.
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The Amigos Fincas - Our Organic Laboratories |
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Our goal is healthy meals for young children.
Farm production and activity is booming at the Amigos Farms this month, as we test organic methods on our new tomato plants. By using compost as fertilizer, we are able to take organic matter that already exists on the farm to make material rich in nutrients for healthier and bigger fruits and vegetables. Instead of using chemical insecticides and potentially harm the fields, our farm crew has created a mixture of the Neen tree leaf and vegetable oil as a soil friendly way to keep bugs away. The farm team is researching methods of organic farming by visiting other fincas (farms) in Nicaragua.  In addition to the tomato plants, which will be ready for harvest in April, there are 450 plantains and 150 fruit trees that were planted last fall. The plantains will begin producing in August 2009. With each tree producing a head of 50-60 plantains that's an estimated 25,000 plantains! The finca boasts an exotic array of fruit trees, including avocado, mandarin orange, orange, lime, mango, coconut and mamones. These fragrant beauties will start to produce within the next couple of years. This bounty of wonderful food will provide healthy lunches for over the 550 students in our school feeding program each day. |
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Chicken Facts:
Our farms produce over 1200 eggs daily! The Amigos Farm Team will soon be producing broiler chickens using organic methods. We'll keep you posted!
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Want more information about our projects in Nicaragua and how you can help? Visit the 'Projects' area of our website at AmigosforChrist.org. Thank you for your involvement in our mission. We hope to hear from you soon!
Sincerely,
The Amigos for Christ
U.S and Nicaraguan Staff |
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