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 →

I imagine that the majority of you reading this are sheltering at home, as many of us are here in Nicaragua. Unfortunately, most Nicaraguans do not have the luxury of working from home, so many of the people that we work with in San Ramón have to continue to expose themselves daily as Covid-19 slowly… Read More →

Nancy Martin visited San Ramón on one of our cultural immersion ecotours in February, with the group Active People on the Move. Below are her reflections from her trip. For the past several weeks I have been able to think and talk of little else but the seven days I spent in Nicaragua on a… Read More →

Lonna Harkrader founded Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua with her husband Richard in 1993. They come down every year and spend some time in San Ramón to work with us and visit their long-time friends. I asked Lonna to share a little about makes San Ramón so special to her. Here is her answer…. Read More →

In general, all non-profits share certain day-to-day struggles: maintaining funding from year-to-year, stretching dollars to cover project costs, trying to keep operating costs down while still running an efficient organization, etc. But perhaps one of the most insidious and toxic problems is mission creep. Mission creep is when an organization gradually moves away from its… Read More →