This event is in person only

Speakers:

Francisco Dominguez, NSCAG Executive Committee

Marlen Sanchez,  Director of the Latin America Agroecology Institute in Nicaragua, member of the Rural Workers Association (ATC) international relations secretariat

Report of recent UK-Nicaragua teacher exchange sponsored by the NEU

Alix Hughes, Bristol Link with Nicaragua, twinned with Puerto Morazan

Special guest: Guisell Morales, Nicaraguan ambassador to the UK and Ireland

Chair: Christine Blower, Labour member of the House of Lords

For 43 years NSC and NSCAG have stood in solidarity with the Nicaraguan people and social organisations and movements through building links between UK organisations and their Nicaraguan counterparts.

Join us in this solidarity event to learn more about how this has developed over recent years, particularly through education and rural development.

Through a continuation of the 1979 Revolution, Nicaragua and its social movements demonstrate not just in rhetoric but in action how to build a better life for the majority of their people.  With 58% of the budget devoted to health and education, and with priority given to supporting the social economy, low-cost housing and improved infrastructure, Nicaragua is a shining example of what can be achieved when people are put before profit. Since 2018 this has been achieved despite an attempted coup , the Covid  pandemic , two major hurricanes and US sanctions. Political space opened up by the government has enabled social movements such as the ATC to focus on rural development programmes that build food sovereignty, agroecology and social transformation, the priorities of La Via Campesina. 

Free admission but donations welcome