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

Annual Review 2011

Major environmental issue affecting the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Go to our News page to read more.

Project Bulletins

Below are some of our project bulletins, written specially by John Perry, our Managment Committee member based in Nicaragua. These relate to work that is being undertaken by our partner organisation, ADIC, the Association for Integrated Community Development.

No 22 - Rain stops project work.pdf
No 21a - Trees for Life Article from CAR Summer 2010.pdf (119kb)
No 21 - We own the land the water the electricity....pdf (231kb)
No 20 - Trees for Life.pdf (307kb)
No 19 - Two photo shoots in Masaya.pdf (4.90MB)
No 18a - Inside Housing 23 Jan 09.pdf
No 18 - First 100 Solar Systems Installed.pdf (1.72MB)
No 17 - ELECTRICITY REACHES LOS POCITOS.pdf (1.79MB)
No 16 - MORE SOLAR PANELS IN 2008.pdf (426kb)
No 15 - HURRICANE FELIX DEVASTATES ATLANTIC COAST.pdf (258kb)
No 14 - MORE SOLAR PANELS FOR TISMA.pdf (270kb)
No 13- New Projects for 2007 (903kb)
No 12a-School Project: What the Students think (274kb)
No 12- School Project Achieves Results (336kb)
No 11- Working with a local school (246kb)
No 10- Santa Clara Families Switch on the lights (357kb)
No 9 - Bringing Electricity to Santa Clara (305kb)
No 8 - Solar Energy in El Pochote (297kb)
No 7 - Project moves to El Pochote (202kb)
No 6 - First five houses completed (231kb)
No 5 - Building a prototype straw bale house (203kb)
No 4 - UK embassy funds water cisterns project(253kb)
No 3 - Five farmers build water cisterns (176kb)
No 2 - Pedro Carranza’s model farm (327kb)
No 1 - Women from ‘las Flores’ join the farming project (115kb)
No 0 - Background to housing project: Agrovivienda (68.3kb)

Agrovivienda is the long term housing project, for small farmers in Masaya, supported by the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Leicester Masaya Link Group.

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