Thanksgiving is a Verb

As Americans sit down to Thanksgiving dinner this week, we should all be grateful for what we have, remember those in need around the planet, including our brothers and sisters in Nicaragua, and share from our abundance.

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Vivian Stromberg of Global Giving discusses “Harvesting Hope: Overcoming Hurricane Felix” on Nov. 19.

• Beneficiaries of Harvesting Hope include over 2,000 Indigenous women and families in the village of Waspam and 104 surrounding communities, as techniques learned in Harvesting Hope trainings are shared with remote communities by project participants. Rose Cunningham, Wangki Tangni’s Director, reports that women from neighboring communities continue to attend Harvesting Hope trainings in record numbers, sometimes walking two or three days to get there, and participants say that the income-generating aspects of the project are helping them come closer to meeting their families’ immediate needs.
  

The Miami Herald issued an opinion on Nov. 16: The death and destruction left in Nicaragua by Hurricane Felix last September is now being compounded by a political disaster: the growing complaints that the Sandinista government is distributing relief aid based on party loyalty.

Laura Werner of Agros International blogs about a project they funded in the Matagalpa region.

MADRE is organizing a trip to the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua on January 5.

The Canadian International Development Agency (or CIDA) will donate $4 million Canadian dollars to the World Food program which in turn will feed school children in Nicaragua for a year.

NicaNet writes Give gifts that keep giving! Fight climate change! Help Nicaragua recover from floods!

The European Commission donated 5 million Euros to hurricane relief in Nicaragua on November 5.