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PRIMERA PARTE: AN AMERICAN IN GRANADA, NICARAGUA...
When Judit Targarona Borrás, executive director of Casas de la Esperanza in Nicaragua, first arrived in La Prusia, she felt as though she had stepped into a different world...
...destitute living conditions in Nicaragua spurred both Borrás and fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos to found Casas de la Esperanza. The nonprofit organization, which was started in Cambridge, offers aid to families living in the outskirts of Granada, Nicaragua, including the semi-urban community La Prusia, which is home to over 200 families. Many of these families face harsh living conditions, squatting in makeshift houses with dirt floors...
...course, there are bound to be challenges in any effort to bridge the gap between Harvard and La Prusia, Cambridge and Nicaragua...
...craft is native to Nicaragua, but La Prusia doesn’t do it,” says Katherine L. Sancken ’09, who recently joined the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project. “It’s not immediately local...