CBL Project:Alternative Spring Break in Matagalpa, Nicaragua

For my Community Engagement Project I have decided to choose the alternative spring break in Matagalpa and Mulukuku, Nicaragua. Participants learn about the work of the Sisters of Notre Dame through the area of education for both rural and disabled children. This trip is a perfect example on how even in places beyond the United States, state and local governments of those place can face similar issues to the ones US faces. My community partner arises from a local need in the sense that Nicaragua has many parts of its city in which people are in need and their local and federal government is not doing their part to help those citizens who are in need, and that is where the Sisters of Notre Dame come in. The Sisters of Notre Dame are taking action and essentially doing the work that the government doesn’t take the time to doing for its citizens in Nicaragua who are in need. My CP is not constrained or affected by Federal policies, because the sisters of Notre Dame are not doing anything that would constrain them by policies. My CP is accountable for the rural and disabled children in Nicaragua who do not have a voice in society and when it comes to their government they are not heard, and therefore are not being helped and that is why Sisters of Notre Dame have taken the initiative to help them.