Life in the campo
Fruit Kevin helped pick while in the campo.
Kevin Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua.
Kevin experienced several aspects of life related to living in rural Nicaragua: a lack of access to water and the intense labour r...
An old pair of jeans
By Cassie Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua. This post corresponds to a previous post that reflected on workers who are employed in free trade zones in Nicaragua.
I just happened to be wearing an old pair of Gap jea...
How many slaves are working for you?
By Kevin Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua
Cassie and I rode a bus through one of the many “zona francas” (free trade zones) here in Nicaragua. It was a Saturday night and thousands of people were flooding into the str...
Migration Checkpoint
Miriam Harder has recently begun an MCC service assignment working in conservation agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Central America. In this blog, she recounts an encounter with the realities of immigrati...