2012 is the International Year of Cooperatives

Join us in supporting environmentally and socially just Cooperative Housing in Nicaragua!

The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, and SosteNica is following suit with an exciting new project to finance an eco-friendly Housing Cooperative in Nicaragua. Along with the UN and our Nicaraguan partner organizations we strongly believe in the potential of cooperative enterprises to reduce poverty, generate employment, and strengthen social relationships and communities. Housing cooperatives offer motivated Nicaraguans not only the opportunity of owning a house but of belonging to a community that holds collective autonomy over its own development. Our current campaign to raise $100,000 in donations will help offset the cost of the eco-friendly houses and offer affordable mortgages to these hard working Nicaraguan families! The houses will be built cooperatively by the member families with the support of four US, Mexican, and Nicaraguan organizations. The cooperative will include earth blocks, composting toilets, grey water treatment systems, and solar power. With your help we can not only build houses but construct healthy communities in Nicaragua. Invest, Donate, and never hesitate to contact us for more information!

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We at SOSTENICA have a dream.

We dream of rural Nicaraguan families owning their own land, and on that land growing everything they need to lead a healthy, happy life.
We dream of communities of Nicaraguan families who support one another in good times and in difficult times, families who celebrate together and grieve together.
We dream of a verdant Nicaraguan landscape, an intact ecosystem free of toxins and pollutants, rich with biodiversity, clean air and fresh sweet water.
We dream of ordinary Nicaraguan families having enough resources locally that they never think of emigrating to another country in search of work, families who love where they live and what they do.
We dream of young families living in ecological homes, which they built with their own hands out of locally available materials, and which are both beautiful and sustainable.
We dream of a world in which people with resources in one country reach out their hands to support people in another country, who are struggling to make a sustainable life.
We dream of a community of people in the US whose investments reflect their values, where their doing good does not conflict with their doing well.

William Jose Gutierrez Gutierrez con su hija Jennifer

SOSTENICA Sustainable Development Fund of Nicaragua

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