When our new fiscal year began in July of this year, we hit the ground running. Here’s a quick review of what we’ve done since then: We’ve provided materials for 34 latrines for rural families in two communities of San Ramón. Since we started our sanitation project with the rural women’s group UMOYS in 2017, that… Read More →

Our founder, Lonna Harkrader, writes about how San Ramón re-built its water system, and also how the community of Las Delicias came to have electricity. In 2002, the mayor asked SCSRN to help build a new water system for the urban area of San Ramón. During the rainy season, the water was dirty, and during… Read More →

We asked Carolyn Barrett, SCSRN Board member, to share her reasons for joining the SCSRN team and what the experience has meant to her. How Nicaragua? Why Nicaragua? It all started when I retired from a 30-year teaching career at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was accepted to serve in the… Read More →

Everyone who has ever participated in our cultural immersion eco-tours has visited Los Pipitos San Ramón, and for many, it is the defining experience of their stay in Nicaragua. Since 1992, this center for children with disabilities has been transforming the lives of not only the children  that they work with, but also their families… Read More →

Our founder, Lonna Harkrader, reflects on SCSRN’s beginnings. Twenty-seven years ago, June 1993, a group of peace-loving activists from North Carolina visited San Ramón, in hopes of finding a community that would be interested in forming ties of peace and friendship with us. We had been involved in opposing the Contra War, one of the… Read More →