Annika Hemdal

Boaco, Nicaragua

Passionate About:

environmental issues, female empowerment, diversity

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American University Nicaragua Summer 2017



Volunteer Activity Description

NICARAGUA
TRAVEL.
Traveling with GSE means working alongside our Nicaraguan peers, hiking up a volcano through the mist of Lake Nicaragua.

LEARN.
Hands-on service-learning projects and cultural exchanges provide students with life changing learning opportunities. Students develop organic farming skills, practice Spanish, and participate in grassroots international relations while building crucial 21st century skills such as cross-cultural communication and collaboration.

IMPACT.
Last year students helped to build an irrigation system for a 1.5-acre school farm, a 10 x 15 meter greenhouse, and two medium-sized school gardens. The overall focus is on expanding production, building new garden sites, and developing a capacity to harvest plots year round by installing water tanks and well systems which will increase the number of harvest cycles by 40%. 100% of the produce grown will go to feeding hundreds of local students. Crops grown include: mangos, bananas, yuca, corn, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, and many others.

GROW.
Plants aren’t the only things that grow! International travel facilitates profound transformation for students. Students return home with an understanding of a new culture, with new friends, and an inspiration to make change in their local and global community.

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Niklas Hemdal donated $250.0000 to Annika 2762 days ago
Christie Evans Sturges donated $50.0000 to Annika 2768 days ago
Annika Hemdal donated $931.7300 to Annika 2769 days ago
Chelsey Cartwright donated $22.2700 to Annika 2791 days ago
Geir Hemdal donated $60.0000 to Annika 2792 days ago
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