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A long walk

I’m standing on the Mirador (lookout) in Las Minitas, on top of the mountain.

Down there, where I’m pointing, is the school in El Jicote that the kids in Las Minitas had to walk to every day — at least an hour each way — to attend elementary school. Their parents lobbied the Nicaraguan government for four years to obtain a permanent teacher.

For a year, they studied with the teacher under a tree at a neighbor’s porch, until the residents built a makeshift shelter for a school with salvaged wood.

There will be a big celebration Feb. 10 or 11 to open the first school ever in Las Minitas!



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One response to “A long walk”

  1. Kara Walsh says:

    I think the school you are helping build there is one of the most hopeful things I’ve heard of in years. That they were willing to walk that far says so much about their commitment to education. They deserve that new school, and I’m so glad they are going to get it.

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