Working with Leicester’s twin city of Masaya in Nicaragua
and raising awareness of global issues
and raising awareness of global issues
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WHAT'S NEW
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
LMLG Management Committee meeting - Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 8pm at Southfields Library, Southfields Drive, Leicester LE2 6QS
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - Mon 30 January - Fri 3 Feb 2012 and Mon 17 - Fri 21 Sep 2012 Food for Thought Experience Programme.pdf
GLOBAL EDUCATION LEICESTER-SHIRE - Termly meeting - Tuesday 6 March 2012 from 4 - 5.30pm - Venue TBC. Minutes of previous meeting.
Linking Local Lives - Creating Global Connections FREE training for schools
UPDATES and NEWS:
Latest bulletin from Nicaragua - No 24 - Second results out.pdf
Major environmental issue affecting the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Go to our News page to read more.
LMLG Blog
December 21, 2011
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Costa Rica is renowned for its excellent environmental record, but with the construction of 150km road beside the San Juan river, which it shares with Nicaragua, it appears to be going against that reputation by causing enormous damage to the environment.
December 01, 2011
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John Perry looks at the reasons behind Daniel Ortega's recent re-election http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/11/08/john-perry/why-ortega-wo.....
October 21, 2011
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Nicaragua has recently been hit by extreme weather conditions with several people killed and hundreds of thousands rendered homeless. John Perry and Dani Gent are currently on route to Nicaragua and we will post first hand reports on the situation from them as soon as we receive them.
October 03, 2011
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Irma Sehwerert, who is the mother of one of the 'Miami Five' visited Masaya in September 2011 and met with FElix Trejos, the Mayor. John Perry was among the 60 people who attended the event which inspired the following article:http://www.l.....
June 27, 2011
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One of the more unusual events in the long history of popular uprisings against despotic regimes took place in Nicaragua on the night of 27 June 1979. The grip of the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled the country for more than 40 years, was slipping. The Sandinistas had advanced from their rural strongholds into the towns, and by early June th.....
Life & Light Bike Ride Blog
July 01, 2011
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All good things come to an end – some pretty unpleasant ones as well.
June 30, 2011
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An interesting day. Leaving my B&B with my host, who was kind enough to give me a lift with the bike back to Crediton I arrived reasonably early at the bike shop.
June 29, 2011
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Up at a reasonable time, determined to get as far into the west as I could, and hoping to get to within striking distance of the end. The end! What a thought that was… I left Clifton .....
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