Nicaragua Sister Partnership

A partnership between the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, the UNAG (Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos) and the San Juan de Limay community in Nicaragua since 1992.

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¡Fun Facts of Nicaragua!

The infamous Dual Volcano is located in Nicaragua. It is the only volcano in the world that is fed by two different magma flows, meaning that it can erupt with two types of magma channels.

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¡Fun Facts of Nicaragua!

Fun Fact of the Week: Managuans don’t name their streets. How do they deliver mail? Your address is given by whatever major landmarks you happen to live near (such as three blocks north of the Flower Corner). Sometimes the names of the landmarks change, so it can get very confusing

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¡Fun Facts of Nicaragua!

Fun Fact of the Week: Baseball is the most popular sport in Nicaragua

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¡Fun Facts of Nicaragua!

Fun fact of the week: Los Angeles and Miami are Managua’s sister cities 

Sister cities

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Meet CASP!

This semester, the Nicaragua Sister Partnership (NicSis) has helped to build the Central American Solidarity Partnerships (CASP) with Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador (OSES) and Oberlin Students in Solidarity with Guatemala (OSSGUA). We felt that it was silly to have three similar organizations that had little to no communication, so now we have our own partnerships between partnerships! ~Inception~

Together, we will host a photo exhibition around different spots on campus, displaying photos of our respective sister sites in Central America! Keep an eye out for that.

If you would like to get involved, please contact any one of our organizations at the following emails:

NicSis: [email protected]

OSSGUA: [email protected]

OSES: Maia Ross Trupin- [email protected]

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Spring Committee 2018

Meet our committee for this semester, Spring 2018! We are missing some committee members, but this is such a cute picture we decided to put it up anyway! A reminder that meetings take place Fridays at 4pm in Wilder 314.

Left to right: 

(bottom) Keelan Anacheka-Nasemann, Antonia Offen [coordinator], Celeste McBride

(top) Sadie Keller, Avery Grace, and Maddy Samet [coordinator]

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This semester, we will be posting updates on the people whom NicSis is in contact with! Please comment, reblog, and let us know your own stories! 

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Solidarity with the Nicaragua Sister Partnership

Help students strengthen a 22-year-old transnational solidarity partnership supporting women farmers

Please consider sharing/contributing! We need all of the help we can get to bring Dona Carmen and Dona Maribel, two loan recipients with a long history with the UNAG, to Oberlin!

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Photos from the Winter Term 2014 delegation trip

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Some of the murals that narrate Nicaraguan history in León. 

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Alumni Feature: Marlee Fisher '12

Here are some reflections from one of our alumni! 

Marlee Fischer '12, Latin American Studies

Participating in NicSis and the 2010 winter term delegation to Nicaragua was an informative experience and has undoubtedly influenced my life choices. I will forever remember my homestay family as incredibly welcoming and generous. The rural village where I stayed, a village that lacked running water, electricity, and stable living structures, was also the most vibrant community I’ve ever experienced. Since traveling back to Latin America numerous times, I have continued to find the happiest people among impoverished communities, redefining the traditional sense of happiness and success that is understood in the United States.

 Since my delegation to Nicaragua, I have pursued public health in the migrant community, greatly influenced by my Nicaraguan host-sister who suffered from cerebral palsy and lacked access to medical care. I worked as an AmeriCorps member in a Seattle community health center serving the Latino community, and I am currently coordinating patient care in public schools with high immigrant populations. My experience with NicSis in Nicaragua revealed the frustrating reality that many communities have great potential but lack the resources to overcome debilitating obstacles. I hope to dedicate my present and future work to providing those resources to others.

To see more alumni testimonials visit: http://oscanicsis.tumblr.com/testimonials

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We held a screening of Somos Una América last week to discuss the pervasiveness of militarism throughout the Americas and in our everyday lives. We see this as an important factor in framing solidarity work to build transnational relationships that break away from the US's history of military and economic intervention in Latin America. 

Watch the film and learn more at: http://www.soaw.org/

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Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo elected to Congress

Camila Vallejo, who helped spearhead Chile's student uprising in 2011,has been elected to Congress alongside three other former university leaders, underscoring a generational shift in the country's politics.

The 25-year-old communist shot to international fame as one of the most recognisable faces of a student movement seeking free and improved education in a country fettered by the worst income distribution among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 34 member states.

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Nicaragua Sister Partnership delegation members will be sitting on a panel on what it means do international service tommorrow! Come out to hear from our panelists and from GlobeMed and Shining Hope for Communities!

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Noam Chomsky's account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of a popular mass movement from below.

From What Uncle Sam Really Wants, by Noam Chomsky.

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Join the Nicaragua Sister Partnership for an overview of Nicaraguan history, screening School of the Americas Watch (http://www.soaw.org/) short 25 min documentary film, Somos Una Ameria, and discussion on militarism and US Intervention in Latin America on Thurs. 11/14 at 7:30pm, King 239. Somos Una América is the story of people from across the Americas, who are united in their struggle against the Pentagon mindset that is promoting U.S. domination and Somos Una América"military solutions" in the Western Hemisphere. You can watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj92bWqVaik 

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Thanks to Aracely Medina, Honduran Human Rights Advocate, and Cyndi Malaski OC'11, NicSis alumni, who came to speak on behalf of Witness for Peace last Wednesday on the experiences of Hondurans. They spoke on the effects of transnational corporations, US immigration policy, the 2009 Honduran coup, and US military and government intervention in Honduran politics. 

To stay updated on Witness for Peace's work in Honduras, sign up for their email list here: http://goo.gl/U5l70h