Resultado de trabajo de campo realizado en la selva nicaragüense en el Programa Mundial de Alimentos - Naciones Unidas. Prof. Monica Alejandra Gaeta (Buenos Aires)

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WELCOME TO NICARAGUA
Mónica Alejandra Gaeta
Angélica Castillo Montilla

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• Nicaragua
Matagalpa
• City
• Its people
• Team 12 suggestions
• Other activities
• Benefits of TNT projects in Nicaragua
• Suggestions for Team 14
Índice

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Nicaragua
• Location- Nicaragua
• Capital – Managua
• Climate – Tropical in lowlands, cooler in
highlands
• Population – 5.500.000 ( est. In July 2006) It is
difficult to know exactly how the population of
Nicaragua is, because there is not a trustworthy
census. About all in the most impoverish rural
population because the parents do not register
the children when they born.
Ethnic Groups – About 75% are half-breed of
Hispanic origin and indigenous.
10% is made of population of Spanish origin and
European.
A little fraction of the population is indigenous,
and black descended, (specially in the Atlantic
Cost) among these indigenous there are the
miskitos, sumus and ramas, who keep their own
original languages.
• It is amazing the highest younger population,
about 70% is under 30 years of age. It is because
the highest birth rate, in due to religious and
cultural reasons, they are reluctant to use birth
control methods.
• Languages – Spanish ( official) English and
Indigenous dialects in the Atlantic Coast.
• Currency– Córdoba. Actual change rate : US$
1.00 = C$ 18,25.
• Natural disasters: volcanoes, earthquakes, and
hurricanes. The most recently was Hurricane
Mitch, also called The Poverty Hurricane, which
left 2500 dead and 800 disappeared.
The second most poor country in Latinamerica. More
than 80% live with less than 1$ per day.

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The City

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Matagalpa
Its people

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MATAGALPA DISTRICT
Matagalpa
where we worked
• Located 130 km from
Managua capital.
• Main industry: coffee
plantations.
• Cold weather, with a
temperature between 21°C
– 25°C and localized from
60 – 1745 msnm.
• Population district over:
466,229.
• 2 Municipalities are helped:
Matagalpa and El Tuma La
Dalia
• It is well known by its black
pottery.
Aquí colocar
mapa de
matagalpacon los
lugares indicadosMatagalpa
El Tuma La Dalia

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• Nicaragua
• Team 10 suggestions
• Projects
– Phase I - constructions
– Phase II – utensils and filters
– phase III – Formations
– Other projects.
• Other activitities
• Benefits of TNT Projects in Nicaragua
• Suggestions for team 13
Index

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Team 12 suggestions
• Budget TNT-PMA (US$10,000)
• 2 Kitchen warehouses
• 2 Fuel-efficient stoves
• 2 Multi-purpose kitchen sinks
• 1 Washing hands sinks
• 1 Rainwater collection system
• 2 Potable water filters
• 1 Classroom
• 6 Games of material of workshops
• 3 Trainings on hygiene and healthy habits
• 2 Set of Kitchen & canteen utensils
Primero de Mayo
Hilipo
Emmanuel Mongalo

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• Nicaragua
• Team 12 suggestions
• Projects
– Phase I – Constructions
– Phase II – Utensils
– Phase III – Trainings
– Other proyects
• Other activities
• Benefits of TNT projects in Nicaragua
• Suggestions for team 13
Index

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Phase I – Constructions
• First of all we did meetings with the
parents, teachers and foreman to
organize works teams.
• Delivery of the materials, with the
correspondent list for check and
control.
• Once all the materials were in optimal
conditions, they were warehoused and
the community had to take care of it.
• The microprojects constructions
started on June 5th and ended on July
2th.

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Phase I – Constructions
– Located in the town of Tuma La Dalia, situated 36 km from Magalpa.
– 131 children of multi grade at the school with 3 teachers.
– The principal entry producing activity of the zone is: Coffe plantation.
– The kindergarden doesn’t have a stable place to funtion (classes are
given in a particular house).
– It has basis energy service and current water, avaible only during some
hours a day.
– To improve the conditions of hygiene in the preparation and consume of
the meals it was necesary a kitchen with ecofogon (ecological fire place)
and molendero (a wooden table used as a pantry). The school didn’t
have this instalations. TNT contributed to relieve this urgent necesity
and realized the donations for the construccions of the structure.
– The limitation is that doesn´t exist the disponibility of the water in the
school, necessary for the consume and preparations of the meals, team
13 of TNT-PMA has provided the school with water captors with their
filters.
– Initiation from the community: they improve the drainage system of the
school.
BEFORE
AFTER
DURING
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Primero de Mayo

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Phase I – Constructions
• Hilipo
– Located in Pueblo Viejo, 29 km from Matagalpa.
– 145 preschoolers children and primary multi grade with 4 female teachers.
– Main activities to generate income is the subsistence agricultural.
– They have permanent running water and also the havey electric energy.
– The foreman worked very hard among with parents, overcoming all the expectative
because they finished in record time only in 15 days.
– The community was very participative and organized.
BEFORE DURING AFTER
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Phase I – Constructions
• Emmanuel Mongalo
– Preschool 178 children and 6 female teacher.
– Without running water or electric energy, only
25% they have running water and electric energy.
– The communities worked very hard, they were
very organized with a very active community.
– This has facilitated the communications and the
good knowledge in all the activities.
BEFORE
AFTER
DURING
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Phase I – Constructions
MULTIPORPUSE SINK
RAIN WATER COLLECTOR SYSTEM ECO STOVE
WASHING HAND SINK

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Phase II - Utensils and Filters
• Utensils for the schools
– Kitchen and canteen utensils:
disserts, spoons, cups.
– Other articles for the schools Primero
de Mayo, Hilipo and Emmanuel
Mongalo.
– 3 Potable water filters: for Primero
de Mayo, Hilipo and Emmanuel
Mongalo.
– Posters about hygiene information,
where with easy words and draws
explain to parents and children basic
rules and how to maintenance the
new installations.
POSTERS ABOUT HYGIENE
INFORMATION
CERTIFICATE OF THE
DONATIONS
FILTER FOR THE SCHOOLS,
KITCHEN AND CANTEEN

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Fase III – Formación
•Using dynamic learning
with marionettes, we
taught to the kids,
personal hygienically
rules and how to take
care the environment.
•Thanks to the Pedrito
and the Little drop history
they learnt how to use the
water correctly and the
importance of keeping the
body clean.
•Parents also received
their workshop, focus in
the correct use and care
of the maintaining of
the projects to set a
example to their kids.

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Other activities
ADICIONALS PROJETS V 13
Parallel of the official projects funds were donated to others projects
Painting donation to pint the preschool classroom of Primero de
Mayo, Hilipo and Emmanuel Mongalo. The painting was mostly done
by the communities.

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Other activities
Donations of tooth brush, tooth paste and
workshop about tooth hygiene
We gave importance to the oral hygiene and after the hygiene capacitations we
donated to each kid from 3 schools, tooth paste and toothbrush.
We explained to the kids how they should wash
their teeth and how important it was to do it
after every meal.

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Other activities
SMALL REFORESTATIONS OF FRUIT TREES
We did the donations of fruit
trees (aguacates and mangos).
For agregate to the children
alimentation diet.
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Our intention was the reforestation, and
also that the kids take care of the little
trees and contribute to the caring of the
enviroment.

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Aditional activities
Visit to the Recovery Nutrition Center
for Children of Matagalpa
We visited the Recovery Nutrition Center for Children of Matagalpa
offten.
The Center has capacity for 20 children with severe levels of
malnutrition.
We often went there and played with the kids, we gave them food
and made them company overall, and we gave them love; that love
that they need so much.
It was one of the most emotive activities for us and to see the
recovery of the little ones day by day made us feel very happy.

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Other activities
Drawing contest
We organized a drawing contest in Primero de
Mayo School to know what it meant to them The
Schools Alimentation Programme.
We donated colors and blocks (a white sheet
notebook) to each boy and girl of the school.
It was difficult to chose the winners because all were authentic artists.

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Other activities
We wanted to integrate ourselves with
the communities and didn’t doubt to go
in the kitchen and help the mother to
prepare the meals and give each kids
their portion.
We also made trips with
members of the communities
like the visit the cave of Pueblo
Viejo and El puente Colgante de
San Joaquín.

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Other activities
Donations the toys for the preeschool and dominos for the rest of the school

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Activities with children
For us is very important the contact with children, for this reason we expend a lot of time
with them, dancing and playing. We have a very good and funny time.

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Inaugurations

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Benefits of the TNT Projects - Team 13 in Nicaragua
Benefits for the community
In general improves the quality of life in the
communities.
Children receive a warm meal and just cooked,
they feel happier and the attention level is much
higher.
Mothers avoid heavy loads of warm food from their
houses to school and the risk to get respiratory
diseases decreases because the majority of the
houses do not have chimneys.
Adequate storage in the kitchen warehouse avoid
conflict among the members of the community;
because before that the food was storage in their
own houses and people use to think the food could
be eaten for their own consumption.
INVERSION DE PROYECTOS EJECUTADOS POR VOLUNTARIAS DEL GRUPO 13
ESCUELAS # NIÑOS PROYECTOS # PROYECTOS COSTO EN USA
Primero de Mayo
(Tuma la Dalia)
131
Kitchen-warehouse 1 $ 2.921,86
Fuel-efficient stoves 1 $ 68,59
Multi-purpose kitchen sinks 1 $ 67,10
Washing hands sinks 1 $ 27,78
Kitchen and cantenn utensils 1 $ 473,95
Water filters 1 $ -
Installation of 1 rainwater filters 1 $ 266,21
Reforestation 1 $ 11,11
Trainings on hygiene and
healthy habits 3 $ -
11 $ 3.836,60
Emmanuel
Mongalo
(Pueblo Viejo)
178
Kitchen -warehouse 1 $ 2.921,85
Fuel-efficient stoves 1 $ 68,58
Multi-purpose Kitchen sinks 1 $ 67,10
Kitchen and catenn utensils 1 $ 473,94
Water filters 1 $ -
Reforestations 1 $ 11,11
Trainings on hygiene and
healthy habits 3 $ -
9 $ 3.542,58
Hilipo
(Tuma la Dalia)
145
Classroom 1 $ 2.606,55
Reforestations 1 $ 11,11
Trainings on hygiene and
healthy habits 1 $ -
Kitchen and catenn utensils 1 $ -
Water filters 1 $ -
Trainings on hygiene and
healthy habits 2 $ -
7 $ 2.617,66
Totales 454 27
TOTAL $ 9.996,84

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Benefits of the TNT Projects in Nicaragua
Benefits for the comunity
– Food will be cooked in better hygienic condition with
major quality control.
– Every kid will have his own dishes, spoon and cup.
– One meal a day will be guaranteed.
– These constructions are the buildings with the best
infrastructure and equipments of all the community. They
have washing hands sinks, latrines, running water,
drainage to avoid floods and infectious focus. All of these
incentive the children to want to assist to class and their
parents to enroll them because they encounter beautiful
environment, clean and with major possibilities than in
their own houses.
Municipio No Schools Benefited
Trainings and
materials
Classroom
Warehouse
Kitchen
Eco Stoves
Multi purspouse
sink
Washing
hands sink
Rainwater
collection
System
Filters Reforestation Utensils
TOTAL N0
PROYECTS
Pueblo
Viejo 1
Emmanuel
Mongalo 178 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 9
El Tuma 2
Primero de
Mayo 131 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11
El Tuma 3 Hilipo 145 3 1 1 1 1 7
TOTAL 454 9 1 2 2 2 1 1 3 3 3 27

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Benefits of TNT Proyects in Nicaragua
BENEFITS TO PMA IN NICARAGUA
– Thanks to the money donated by TNT supported structures in
School Feeding Programme have been created, fortifying the main
aims of this organization: decrease hunger, increase the daily
school assistance, decrease absenteeism rates and improve
hygiene conditions.
– It also contribute to reach one of the millennium aim: taking care
the environment, building structures that protect the nature.
• Whit the Eco stoves the excessive wood consume is
decreasing, above all in open spaces, and they maintenance
better the heat.
• Latrines help to a not contaminated environment.
• Drainage systems in the washing hand sinks prevent
infection focus.
Volunteers give new ideas and motivate to the community in a
well use and sustainability of the projects. They create social
conscience.
– We are the best TNT projects ambassadors in our respective
countries, telling to donors all the benefits of their money.

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Suggestions for Team 14
• 2 Kitchen warehouse with their
respective eco waves and washing
hands sinks in the schools
Emmanuel Mongalo (San Joaquin)
and La Cañada (San Dionisio).
• 1 Preschooler classroom in Los Vera
Paz (Tuma La Dalia).
• 1 Rainwater collector system in the
School Los Cuarenta.
• 9 Filters, 3 for each involved school.
• 3 Sets of kitchen and canteen
utensils.
• 9 Trainings with theirs respective
materials.
• Reforestation fruit trees.
Total: 31 projects, 317 children
involved and a estimated
amount of $10,726.38

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Proyectos Oficiales Sugeridos para el Grupo 14
ESCUELAS # NIÑOS PROYECTOS # PROYECTOS COSTO EN USA
Emmanuel Mongalo
(San
Joaquin)
167
Kichen warehouse 1 $ 2.921,86
Fuel- efficient stoves 1 $ 68,59
Multi-purpose kitchen sinks 1 $ 67,10
Washing hands sinks 1 $ 27,78
Kitchen and canteen utensils 1 $ 473,95
Filters 3 $ -
Reforestation 1 $ 11,11
Training on hygiene and healthy
habits 3 $ -
12 $ 3.570,39
La Cañada
(San Dionisio)
120
Kichen warehouse 1 $ 2.921,86
Fuel-efficient stoves 1 $ 68,59
Multi-purpose kitchen sinks 1 $ 67,10
Washing hands sinks 1 $ 27,78
Kitchen and canteen utensils 1 $ 473,95
Filters 1 $ -
Reforestation 1 $ 11,11
Training on hygiene and healthy
habits 3 $ -
10 $ 3.570,39
Los Cuarenta
(Tuma La alia)
30
Classroom 1 $ 2.606,55
Filters 3 $ -
Rainwater collection system 1 $ 266,21
Reforestation 1 $ 11,11
Kitchen and canteen utensils
3 $ -
9 $ 2.883,87
TOTALES 317 31 $ 10.024,65
IMPREVISTOS 7% $ 701,73
TOTAL $ 10.726,38
Suggestions for Team 14

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Recomendations
•Monitoring the projects
implemented by V.13
•Construccion of preescolar
clasrrom with the rain water
collection system of Los
Cuarenta with the money left
for the voluntaries of Team
13.

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Acknowledgements
• Many specially to Liz Maria Ubeda, because we could not have had a better coordinator. Many
thanks for your patient, love, comprehension, support and your knowledge. For you, our best
regard!
• TNT España and TNT Argentina
• Alex Stukenberg
• Annmarie Isler
• Maria Victoria Ta-Asan
• Scarlet Lanzas
• WFP in Matagalpa
• WFP in Managua
• To the rest of WFP staff and volunteers of another countries of Team 12, it have been an
authentic privilege sharing our experiences with yours.
• People of Matagalpa
• We must not forget our families, friends colleagues in our country because of their support
since the first moment we applied for the programme.

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THANK YOU !!!