I guess it's nice for people to have the option of school. My classmates and I stayed in a barrio called El Trapeche but since Jalapa was the closest "city," I put that down as our location. Jalapa is the agricultural capital of Nicargua. We worked in Nueva Esperanza, a small barrio whose people had requested a school. It is my understanding that the school was a reward to the people for working together to build a potable water system for their small community. Last year, people in the community were dying of plague. Yes, "the" plague. My teacher, Deb Young, has been building relationships with the people in that part of the country for twenty years, originally drawn to the area by the war (think Sandinistas). She works with the people in and around Jalapa
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