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Lights, camera, action...

For a week in June, the work of the Nuevas Esperanzas team came under the spotlight when Hywel George, a documentary film maker from Wales, visited us to make two short films.

The first few days focussed on the rainwater harvesting projects in San Jacinto.  We filmed a meeting with the leaders of the four churches and visited several of the tanks.  Community members were happy to be interviewed about their involvement with the project and the difficulties in accessing clean water which the project addresses.  The thunderstorms came at just the right moment for us to film rainwater harvesting in action!  The next day took our mini film crew up the volcano as they braved the steep muddy track on horseback which leads to the community of El Ojochal de Listón .  There they saw the rainwater tank which helps reduce the need for the daily four hour journey to collect water.

During the second part of the week the attention shifted to La Palmerita and a film about the story of one of the families who first came to the site in 2001 when they had to leave their homes in the department of Matagalpa.  Maxima’s youngest child was only three years old when they left the north, joining the march to Managua to protest about the conditions they faced and Daniel remembers clearly those difficult months of travelling and then arriving at the site with nothing.  We accompanied Maxima, Daniel and his older brother, Mainor, tracing their roots back to La Isla de Peñas Blancas, nestled in the mountains with beautiful views of the lush green hillsides in the coffee growing highlands of Nicaragua.  There they showed us the home they had left, the school the children attended and introduced us to other family members.

The DVD of these two short films will be available in August and will be distributed to churches and other organisations to promote the work of Nuevas Esperanzas.  If you are interested in receiving a copy of the DVD please e-mail us at info@nuevasesperanzas.org.

12/06/07