by Yarrow | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog, Domestic Violence Network of Rio Blanco
Rice production is to begin in 2018, The Women’s Agricultural Production Cooperative of Rio Blanco has developed a business plan to create economic empowerment for the cooperative with a new rice processing facility. This facility will guarantee employment for...
by Yarrow | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, News from the Executive Director
ProNica Executive Director Yarrow Ries and Administrative Assistant Maxwell Zinsmeister visited Nicaragua in May of last year to distribute 2017 earmarked donations for ProNica’s partner organizations. During the visit to Casa Materna in Matagalpa it was learned that...
by Yarrow | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Delegations
Nicas Touch the Heart There are many things that are changing in Nicaragua but one thing seems to always stay the same: Nicaraguans touch the heart. This was very true for The Bonner scholar students from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) this January 2017. From the...
by Yarrow | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Staff
Reading Sister Mary Margaret’s cursive note on pale blue stationery reminded me once again of the unshakable bonds between the project partners in Nicaragua and all of you. In her letter I learned that Sister Mary Margaret volunteered with the Acahualinca Women’s...
by Yarrow | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m unclear of the year, let alone a date, as to when I joined the ProNica community. It was in large part due to a friend’s encouragement. How could I, how could any of us, resist the gentle urging of Ruth Hyde Paine? Like now, back in those days, the mid- 1990s,...