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	  "Bridges to Community, Inc. is a not-for-profit community development organization that takes volunteers to developing countries to work, learn, and reflect...promoting cross-cultural learning, a deepening awareness of our global interdependence and a commitment to the common good.");

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	  "Trip Preparations - January 2005. Mary Jennings, Sue Lotz, and Edythe Salzman take a break from planning the Dinner/ Fundraiser for Santa Rosa to display the flag of Nicaragua.");

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	  "Trip Preparations - December 2004. Mary Jennings and Pat Hartvigsen kneel in front of the Giving Tree. Each paper hand on the tree listed some equipment needed by schools in Santa Rosa. Members of the Church community gave items as part of their holiday giving. Pat chaired this initiative.");

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	  "Trip Preparations - February 2005.Party/ Fundraiser. Top: Sue Lotz and Kurt Staven lead auction that raised $5000 for education in Santa Rosa; Edythe Salzman, party chair, enjoys the good time. Bottom[ L] Dan Fassett (center) with some of the members of his talented band; [R] Jim Moisson (center) head chef for the party and two co-chefs, Patrick Parker-Roach and Donna Allen, pause after cooking a great meal.");

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	  "Nicaragua is the largest Central American country, about the size of Greece or New York State. As of the year 2000, the population was 4.8 million (New York State is about 19 Million). In the same year it became the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti.");

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	  "After arriving in Nicaragua, we spent part of a day sightseeing before continuing to Santa Rosa. Here at Mombacho Volcano from the left, standing are: Angy Volterra, Edythe Salzman, Mariela Gorth (Nicaraguan translator), Renee Senes, Sue Lotz, Owen Shuman, Steve Converse (behind), Mary Jennings, Bob Martin, Jim Frey. Front row: Pat Hartvigsen, Miranda Jennings, Marion Stoddart, Bob Lotz.");

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	  "After a day of sightseeing and briefings, we flew from Nicaragua's capital, Managua, to Siuna. Then we traveled by bus and on foot to the Base Camp just across the river from the nearest part of Santa Rosa.");

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	  "Santa Rosa, is a community of about 100 subsistence farming families, spread over many square miles of rolling, partly forested land. It is separated from the nearest town, Siuna, by a river and an hour's bus ride on rough dirt roads.");

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	  "Once at base camp near Santa Rosa, we began each work day with a short boat trip across a river. Laura Martin, Bridges Co-leader in Santa Rosa, and her friend Jesse (in red) bring food and pots for lunch preparation at the work site.");

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	  "After crossing the river, we walked several miles to our work sites each morning. There are many trails, but no roads, in Santa Rosa.");

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	  "We walked past this typical home each morning and again after work on our return to base camp. There is neither electricity nor running water in the community.");

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	  "Marion Stoddart uses a machete to help clear a field.");

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	  "We plant seedlings with a Santa Rosa family. Also helping are two students, Corina (L) and William (green T-shirt), from the Regional University for the Autonomy of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN).");

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	  "Instructed by a student from URACCAN (right), Angy Volterra, center, helps peel yucca for a meal, Bridges and URACCAN collaborate on projects in the Siuna area.");

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	  "Sue Lotz holds a chicken, freshly killed by her host, Felipa. After being plucked and cut up, the chicken became part of lunch at the work site that day.");

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	  "Felipa, a Santa Rosa grandmother, prepares a meal. The open cooking fire and pots are typical of homes in this community.");

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	  "Cooking takes several hours for each meal, including breakfast. Since there is no electricity, this work begins at first light, about 5 am.");

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	  "Lunch at a work site. Foreground from lower left, clockwise: Sue Lotz, Mary Jennings (yellow), Marion Stoddart, Rene Senes, Angy Volterra, Mariela (dark green, translator), William (URACCAN student), Miranda Jennings (Bridges to Community Coordinator).");

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	  "Pat Hartvigsen helps a student make her Ecological Brigade T-shirt. The brigade, is a part of the Bridges Santa Rosa Project; it helps kids learn how to protect the environment.");

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	  "Wilber admires his freshly-decorated Ecological Brigade T-Shirt including the brigade slogan, Ninos Poderosos: Powerful Children.");

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	  "Rene Senes, foreground, assists Marina Siles who is instructing Santa Rosans on preparing medicines from local plants.");

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	  "Pedro sketches a pineapple, his choice of 'something beautiful in Santa Rosa,' for a mural to go on a wall of the new school.");

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	  "Mary Jennings lays out a grid for the mural on the wall. The school was recently finished by students from Tufts University and Dartmouth College.");

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	  "Students paint the mural, developed from the drawings they originally made with markers on paper.");

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	  "This student, Ronaldo, had earlier chosen birds to sketch on paper as his 'something beautiful about Santa Rosa'. Now he paints one of many birds in the mural on the school wall.");

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	  "The community dedicates its new school: two concrete block classrooms separated by a patio and all covered by twin red roofs. The new mural, partly veiled for its presentation, is on one left wall.");

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	  "Students have just unveiled the mural, painted by nearly all of those shown. Clearly as delighted as anyone, Pedro is center-right under the pineapples he created, holding a cloth that helped to veil the collaborative art.");