While your friends maybe running away to tropical locations for a Spring Break of binge drinking and enjoying the sunshine, why don't you travel to Nicaragua during your break to SERVE?
This trip is open to all Cornell University students. Attend the information and interest session to find out more!
La Chureca, Managua, NicaraguaMarch 19 - 26, 2011
Info Discussion Session 1: Monday, Feb 21
(Location & Time: Rockefeller Hall 189, 6pm-7pm)
Info Discussion Session 2: Wednesday, Feb 23
(Location & Time: Rockefeller Hall 110, 6pm-7pm
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In the capital of Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere just behind Haiti, there looms La Chureca, the largest waste dump in Central America and home to thousands of people.
Life in the dump is brutal. Children are routinely mistreated by families, other trash pickers, and dump employees. Physical abuse and sexual exploitation are common. More repugnant working conditions can't be imagined. Yet the workers know the place well, having begun as children. And fresh child recruits are still there - caked in the stickiest of filth, unsmiling, exhausted, and unschooled. - Ivan Briscoe, Reporter, El Pais
The garbage dump city in Managua, La Chureca: one of the seven horrors of the world. - Gunnar Salvarsson, Photographer, Kopavogur, Iceland
Typical is the story of a scrawny, flat-chested pre-adolescent girl, wearing a filthy tattered pink chiffon and taffeta pink chiffon and taffeta party dress, barefoot, matted hair, smudged face, who sells herself to garbage truck drivers for two cordobas, about 11 cents. - Zelinda Roccia, Founder, Los Quinchos
These children aren't very different than our own. Except that they've never heard a bedtime story or been read a book - Cheryl Avery, Project Chacocente
Life in the dump is brutal. Children are routinely mistreated by families, other trash pickers, and dump employees. Physical abuse and sexual exploitation are common. More repugnant working conditions can't be imagined. Yet the workers know the place well, having begun as children. And fresh child recruits are still there - caked in the stickiest of filth, unsmiling, exhausted, and unschooled. - Ivan Briscoe, Reporter, El Pais
The garbage dump city in Managua, La Chureca: one of the seven horrors of the world. - Gunnar Salvarsson, Photographer, Kopavogur, Iceland
Typical is the story of a scrawny, flat-chested pre-adolescent girl, wearing a filthy tattered pink chiffon and taffeta pink chiffon and taffeta party dress, barefoot, matted hair, smudged face, who sells herself to garbage truck drivers for two cordobas, about 11 cents. - Zelinda Roccia, Founder, Los Quinchos
These children aren't very different than our own. Except that they've never heard a bedtime story or been read a book - Cheryl Avery, Project Chacocente
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We are looking for total of 20 students who would like to join our Spring 2011 trip. Apply NOW.
Even if you cannot join our trip, you can still be involved.
- Come to our fundraising events.
- Donate art supplies, Spanish children book, clothes, and etc.
- Come to our fundraising events.
- Donate art supplies, Spanish children book, clothes, and etc.
