Casa Ben Linder 2024-2025 delegations:
8-16 June 2024: Global Health Intensive APPLICATIONS CLOSED
July 2024: Solidarity in Action: Celebrating 45 Years of Revolution in Nicaragua
8-17 November 2024: Salud & Solidaridad: Hands-On Healthcare in Nicaragua
February 2025: The Bird Brigade: Birding in Solentiname Arquipelago
March 2025: Power & Protagonism: Women in Nicaragua
Email casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com to apply
Past Delegations (2023)
June 19-26: Voltage and Volcanoes Brigade, Casa Ben Linder Visit a geothermal plant, solar installation, biogas, and electrical grid and recharging station projects. Peer into the second-most dangerous volcano in the world. Zip line among the trees of a dormant giant volcano.
June 17-27 Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast Delegation with Friends of the ATC will visit afro-descendant and indigenous communities that are important groups in the Caribbean Coast autonomy process and Nicaraguan culture, and witness examples of concrete gains in quality of life in education, healthcare and women’s rights.
Mini-Internship with Friends of the ATC, July 3 – July 29 “Agroecology & Revolution” . Share organizing, farming and training experiences led by the ATC and CLOC-Vía Campesina. Share about the IALA methodologies as a strategy for agroecological training, including participating in farm work at the IALA campus. Promote the gains of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in its second phase including celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. Strengthen the Friends of ATC solidarity network through the training of young internationalists.
An historic delegation to Nicaragua! This brigade will take place in one of the country’s most revolutionary and beautiful towns: Esteli, known for being “three times heroic” in the Sandinista struggle for national sovereignty. The delegation will visit and work alongside members of the Rural Workers’ Association (ATC), the organization that represents the people who grow the country’s food, and a founding member of the international movement for food sovereignty, La Via Campesina.
As part of the Friends of ATC’s “Brick by Brick” campaign, the brigade will help put the finishing touches on the mural at the local ATC Federation’s new auditorium, which will be inaugurated as part of the ATC’s 45th anniversary celebrations. Brigadistas will also exchange with families and get their hands dirty at the ATC’s nearby agroecological farms, plus visit experiences in organizing tobacco workers
When: March 18th – 27th, 2023 (arrivals to Managua on March 18th / departures from Managua on March 27th)
Delegation cost: $900 (limited scholarships available)
Apply: All people interested in participating must apply using the online application due by January 12th, 2023 (Note: If you see this announcement after this date but would still like to apply, please write us an email at info.friendsatc@gmail.com)
Questions? Email info.friendsatc@gmail.com.
COFFEE & COOPERATIVES BRIGADE
Where: Managua, Chinandega & Estelí, Nicaragua
When: 11-19 March 2023
Cost: $850 per person for all-inclusive* brigade
To apply: Write to casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com
Application deadline: 31 January 2023 Click here for an application.
Description:
Where does your coffee come from? Join us in Nicaragua to follow your organic coffee’s journey from crop to cup! We’ll visit the beautiful El Porvenir Coffee Co-op, meet the farmers and their families, watch the coffee processing and participate in the selection process. We will learn how cooperatives fit into Nicaragua’s unusual economic model, and hear about the country’s pro-cooperative policies. We will meet all kinds of co-ops – bus & taxi, coffee, cigar-making and ceramics. We will talk with women worker-owners about their co-ops and get a chance to see Nicaragua’s natural beauty.
More information: https://www.casabenjaminlinder.org/tours