JustHope Inc

Three Women of Chacraseca 

JustHope

Creating global partnerships, combating poverty, nurturing sustainable community... 

February 6, 2014 

 

Help Fulfill Dreams

Empower women!

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What's Needed in Nicaragua
Smart phones w/chargers
 Laptop computers for cyber center
 School supplies (pencils, pens, metric rulers, erasers, personal pencil sharpeners, colored pencils)
 
 New or gently used tennis shoes (all sizes)
 Children's ankle socks (inside shoe)

   Join One of our Study Aboard/ Service-Learning Groups!

 

February 23- March 1

AT Stills University (Arizona) medical students to Chacraseca. 
Service-learning clinics   

 

March 1-8

AT Stills University (Missouri) & DOCARE Global Outreach and Continuing Education Week

 

May 17-24

Tulsa Community College Dental Hygiene students to Santa Emilia, La Flor, & Chacraseca. 
Service-Learning projects.  

 

May 21-29

Tulsa Community College Nursing students to Santa Emilia, La Flor, & Chacraseca.   
Service-Learning projects 

 

Click here for more information on any of these trips. 

Click here to read some reflections of our travelers.

 

Faith-Based PartnerTrips
Join Any of the Following!
 
February 10-17  
Trinity Christian Church, Cheney, Kansas to Santa Emilia.  
Building latrines
 
March 9-16
Ktizo UCC, Phoenix, AZ to LaFlor, Nicaragua. 
Repairing Homes
 
March 22-29
St Andrews Lutheran Campus Church to Santa Emilia, Nicaragua.  
Building latrines
 
April 1-8
Presbytery of Southeastern Illinois
to LaFlor, Nicaragua
Building Homes 
 
We can customize a PartnerTrip for your group! Email us!

Marta, one of the community leaders of the Las Lomas sector, and the coordinator of the Las Lomas microcredit bank, dedicates a tremendous amount of time to serving her community. 

Elba trained Marta on how to successfully run a bank, including budgeting, some business management, and the importance of 100% repayment and how to build a healthy support system among the women. She was chosen by Elba and did not want to be a failure. "I chose strong women who would not let their husband take their money." Three of these women are raising pigs; five are raising different types of crops. All of these eight women have made payments on their loans. No payments were due until August of 2014...

Christina - her dream was to have a job. Now, she works at Stitching Hope. She loves learning new things, and thinks it's funny that at 49 years old she's always learning. This job has enabled her to not only learn many news things, but also to earn far more money than she did when she worked as a seamstress out of her home. She walks an hour to work everyday, and an hour back home, because she wants her two children to get an education and to have good jobs; her son is in university now!

Julia runs her own business selling fruits and vegetables from her cart all over Le�n! She buys produce from her neighbors, which she sells in addition to what she grows herself. Every day, except Sunday, she takes the bus at 5:00a and then walks all over town until 2:00p. Now she has a microcredit loan, which she used to buy 2 pigs. She is planning on raising the pigs for breeding and adding pork to her cart offerings. 


These are just a few examples of how partnerships are changing lives! Thank you all for your support and partnership!  

"Be a Sustaining Partner" 
We can do far more together than any of us can do alone!
 
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As little as $10 each month can make a huge difference in JustHope's work- creating global partnerships, combating poverty, and nurturing sustainable community. 
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JustHope is a 501c3 organization dedicated to creating global partnerships, combating extreme poverty, and nurturing sustainable community.   
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 Leslie Penrose, Director                                                                                            [email protected]
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