Nicaragua Gallery
Our guide Virginia Vijil
Gigantona, a giant puppet figure representing the Spanish lady in all her power and splendour and majesty, seen on the streets of Managua
Mike Woodward, showing the ceramic part of the water filtration system
Potter getting ready to produce the ceramic water filter bowl
Linda fills her water bottle with filtered water
Managua women's sewing cooperative, in building constructed by the women themselves
Seamstresses at work
Pangea views the garments for sale
Meeting with the women coop leaders
Visit to a coffee co-operative
March/demonstration heading to the city to protest land rights
Maturing coffee plant
Coffee nursery
"Wet" coffee mill
Coffee--bagged and ready to sell
Coffee bean sorting machine
Manual sorting
Ready for export
Bartering with kids in the cemetery where UW student Ben Linder is buried
Volcano caldera
Shopping for pottery
A day as a tourist
Agua Para la Vida demonstrates foot-cranked water lifter
Pangea meets with Bijagua villagers (project funded through El Porvenir)
Walking to the spring
Women testing the water
Access point for testing water
Workers drink from water point
Water storage tank
Pangea members wash hands before lunch
Explaining the medical kit we brought as gifts
Engineering students trained by Agua Para la Vida
Water engineer student works on a drawing
Fording the stream
Meeting with San Isidro residents, who walked to meet us
The end of the road while traveling to San Isidro. The residents met us here.
Meeting with project personnel
Unwrapping the medical kit
MaryAnn presents her gift
Moya sculpture, Managua
Heading back home
