The 24 Hour Vigil was organized in support of the Jubilee 2000 campaign calling for the cancellation of Third World Debt. Young women on the island of Ometepe, Nicaragua are replanting trees as part of UCA's reforestation project. Two members of El Bloque in Somotillo, Nicaragua stand in a chicken coop built with funds contributed by Change for Children. Graduates from APS's community health promoters training program proudly display their graduation certificates. These volunteers run the community health posts located throughout communities in Nicaragua.
Basic nutrition is fundamental to building healthy communities.
The House of Support offers a safe place where young women who work on the streets can get a bite to eat, sleep for the night and find someone to talk to. The House is part of Thalita project that reaches out to girls involved in prostitution in Maceio, Brazil. On a dirty wall in Isreal Lewitez market, Nicaraguan and Canadian youth together painted a mural to celebrate and promote the rights of children of working children. Youth from Nicaragua and Canada project perform a socio-drama about the lives of children. Vladimir spoke in schools, community halls, churches across Alberta on a five-week tour in the winter of 1999 about the social and political dimensions of the struggle facing Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.