We look forward to this trip as part of our journey of faith and solidarity with the people of Jinocuao. If you would like more information or would like to help out please contact John Seamans or Mara Sanchez, co-leaders of the Delegation. In a cruel irony, after finally recovering from the agricultural damage caused by Hurricane Mitch's massive rains and flooding in 1998, Nicaragua has now been struck by drought. Large portions of the countryside have lost two harvests in a row due to lack of rain. The drought is having a very serious effect on the nine Kairos communities in Nicaragua.
Starvation is a looming threat.
The drought has its severest effect on rural communities, where subsistence farmers depend on their harvests to put food on the table. But it also affects urban communities, who depend on affordable farm produce to live. The cycle of drought and devastating storms is a serious and long-term issue that our sister communities must grapple with. They face the possibility that climate change has rendered their communities uninhabitable as they are now, and they must either find means of irrigating their land or move elsewhere like Biblical sojourners. The baskets, containing rice, beans, corn, sugar, coffee, cooking oil, and kerosene, were delivered to each of the nine Nicaraguan Kairos communities during the Advent Season, by the Kairos Team in Managua.