ECHOES of SILENCE DOLLAR A DAY CAMPAIGN

·        In our barrio La Primavera many impoverished* people are forced to 'live' on US$1.00 a day (an egg, some sugar, a cup of coffee, half a cup rice and beans, couple of tortillas, soft drink).

·        The Echoes of Silence team lives in the barrio to share their lives and to work beside them; our home also serves as clinic and office and, thanks to people like you, we offer all services free. With income cut by 1/3 by the criminal northern bankers, we need your support to continue to:

◦         host and staff a first-call medical post

◦         organize barrio vaccination drives

◦         offer trainings in health, women's rights, dance, crafts, food gardens, recycling, and more.

◦         offer assistance to local schools, including providing recycled computers and tools

◦         offer practical programs to absorb surface water, so eradicating malarial mosquitoes

◦         organize international work brigades to learn from, and work with, barrio folks on ecological projects and on community culture, dance and revolutionary song.

◦         organize international tree-planting brigades both locally and in the desertified North

◦         make links with US/UK communities for our barrio and for other communities

◦         offer regular news and analysis to the wider world and in the Nicaraguan news media

For one dollar a day you support all the above. Please sign the form below now and take/send it to your bank.  Hey! US$20 isn't even a dollar a day. What a deal! Don't delay, you know what happens!

·        Further - as “artists with broken fingernails” - Echoes co-coordinator(s) make several self-sustaining music/speaking tours to the US/UK each year: to find project support; to inform people about the projects and about the current situation in Nicaragua and Latin America; and always to promote a sustainable, just and beautiful way of life for all people on earth.

   Echoes of Silence is a network of volunteers who work together on an ad hoc basis. It is coordinated by wife/husband team, Fátima Hernández and Paul Baker.

   Born into the barrio, Fátima fought with the guerrillas to rid Nicaragua of the vicious Somoza dictatorship, and, as an 'outstanding worker' has served as an unpaid organizer within the Nicaraguan Community Movement for over 30 years. The MCN itself was awarded the 2009 UNESCO Population Prize.

   Paul, singer/songwriter/author, first came to Nicaragua in 1985, and has worked with solidarity groups throughout the Americas and Britain ever since.  Before Echoes he served as in-country worker for the US and UK national solidarity organizations, the Nicaragua Network and the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. He specializes in the songs of the great Chilean singer/songwriter, Víctor Jara, martyred during the Pinochet coup of 11^th September, 1973.

For fuller information, please visit: http://echoesofsilence-ecosdelsilencio.pbwiki.com , write to:

echoespaul@tortillaconsal.com or phone Nicaragua (505) 84 43 23 04 (cel)/(505) 22 49 09 79 (conv)