Since the 1980’s, the sister city bond between Nicaragua and Adams County has been strong. There have been delegations of visitors and volunteers between two countries and recurring events such as the annual Salsa On…
Project Gettysburg León continues to work together with the rural community of Los Mangles to promote better nutrition through home gardening. This month, April, is one of the driest of the year in Nicaragua but…
Project Gettysburg Leon’s (PGL) sister city relationship with Nicaragua is built on cross-cultural exchange. This includes arts and education programs, nutrition programs and much more over the decades, including potable water projects in rural communities…
PGL in February helped support a workshop in the rural community of Los Mangles, located a two-hour drive from the city of León. Women who are participating in PGL's food gardens project learned how to…
Project Gettysburg Leon’s sister city relationship with Nicaragua has supported many things over the years, including potable water for impoverished rural communities, education programs for at-risk youth and food gardens projects to improve nutrition. PGL…
Since 2010, I have been the in-country director in Nicaragua three different times for the sister city relationship between Gettysburg and Leon which will hold its annual auction this month on Saturday the 25th at…
PGL continues its gardening projects in the city and department (state) of Leon, which includes four school gardens and support of work in a rural community where more than thirty women now have established gardens…
PGL works with an organization in the small city of Nagarote in Nicaragua, roughly an hour’s drive from Leon, that offers after-school tutoring to at-risk youth, along with classes in computers, self-defense and home gardening. …
As the year ends and a new one approaches, PGL has been active with various projects in home gardens, arts classes and a program for providing shoes to children from impoverished communities. The latter project…
So far in 2024, PGL has been very active in Nicaragua and this will continue throughout the year. We have supported the installation of solar lighting and bought a refrigerator for an orphanage and pre-school…