Oxapampa is a charming city of 10,000 inhabitants situated in a broad river valley in the upper rain forest. The town was founded by Austrian immigrants in the middle of the 19th century. Life in central Europe was difficult at...
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Service in Oxapampa
Volcán Mombacho Service Visit — Luke
For our last service visit, we headed back to Volcan Mombacho, where the group had gone for a field trip earlier in the semester. Luke is a short 30 minute bus ride away from Jinotepe on the road to Granada...
Pearl Lagoon Service Visit — Caleb and Lynelle
Our journey to visit Caleb and Lynelle started out early as we left on a 6:15am-ish flight to Bluefields from Managua. After arriving in Bluefields, we took a panga (speedboat) to Pearl Lagoon and got in just before it started...
Managua Service Visit — Erin
Erin is working at the Fortress of Hope children’s home on the outskirts of Managua. The seventeen children and youth in this home have been abused either emotionally, physically, or sexually and been taken from their homes and placed at...
Prospective students invited for Indiana Private College Week, July 23-27
From July 23-27, Indiana’s 31 private, nonprofit colleges and universities across the state – including Goshen College – are throwing open their campus doors to students, parents and any others involved in the college selection process as part of Indiana…
Goshen College appoints James Townsend as vice president for enrollment management and marketing
Goshen College President Jim Brenneman has named James Townsend as the college’s new vice president for enrollment management and marketing.
Santa Julia Service Visit — Kelsey
Kelsey lives in the small rural community of Santa Julia outside of El Crucero. El Crucero is only about a 30 minute bus ride from Jinotepe but then the 6 km down a bumpy, muddy road takes another 30 minutes...
Candelaria Service visit — Andrew
Andrew is working in the rural community of Candelaria in the Boaco department (state). Normally it is a 30-45 minute bus ride and a 20 minute walk if the road is in good enough shape for the chicken bus to...
Jinotega Service Visit — Alisha and Arielle
After visiting students in and around Matagalpa, we enjoyed a scenic 1 ½ hour ride to Jinotega, the City of Mists. Nearly 100 years ago, Nicaragua’s German immigrants brought coffee to the mountains, and this region is the site of...
La Grecia Service Visit — Mary
We rode a chicken bus for about 30 minutes along a bumpy road to the community of La Grecia just outside San Ramon, Matagalpa to visit Mary. Mary is working with Vicente Padilla (not the baseball player) on his organic...
Bálsamo Norte Service Visit – Brook
Brook is serving in a community about 22 km outside Matagalpa called Bálsamo Norte. We literally traveled over the rivers and through the trees on a rutted, rocky road for about 45 minutes to reach Bálsamo. Brook is working through...
Service in Boca Ipoki
The Perene River, a tributary of the Amazon, floods during the months of December through April. The rushing waters leave generous deposits of sand along the shorelines, making nice beaches for bathing during the dry season. The village of Boca...
Matagalpa Service Visit – Kyle and Allison
The department (state) of Matagalpa is the most mountainous of Nicaragua, and Matagalpa City, where Kyle and Allison are living, is true to form. Walking the streets of Matagalpa, you will realize that the city is spread out over a...
Service in Villa Rica
The city of Villa Rica – population 14,000 – was founded by European settlers in the 19th century. The area is known as La Tierra del Café (the Land of Coffee). Italian migrants, who appreciated a good cup of java,...
Leslie Miller joins Art Faculty
Designer to begin in Fall 2012.
Alumni heading for grad school–Joe Shetler
Joe Shetler-one of several alumni heading for MFA and MArch programs
Sunshower up and running
A solar array, designed by physics students, is now heating shower water at the RFC.
Electronics Show 2011
The 2011 Electronics show included a self-balancing scooter, robber-chasing cop robots, a buggy that always found its way home, and more.
León service visit — Marissa and Steph
Leon, about a 2 hour bus ride from Managua, was the next stop in our circuit of service visits, where we visited Steph and Marissa. Leon is a historic city, the site of many beautiful cathedrals, and a former capital...
Service in San Francisco
San Francisco and Azulis are sister villages with a combined population of 447 inhabitants. There are close cultural, familial and social ties between these two native Yanesha communities. On the first day of our visit to Azulis, in fact, we...
Batahola Norte Service Visit – Anna and Rachel
Anna and Rachel are spending their service time at Batahola Norte Cultural Center. Batahola Norte is a barrio on the northwest side of Managua. The center was started in 1983 by a Catholic nun from Cincinnati and a Catholic priest...
Groundhogs, Gunthorp Farms, and the Marvel of Soil
While each of us might be here for different reasons, we are all enjoying dealing with the issues of food: where it comes from, what kind is best, how to raise it, and of course, how to eat it. We...
Integrating Knowledge: the Scope of Food Systems
“Out of sight, out of mind” or “You don’t know what you had until its gone” ? Whether it is fields and agriculture, water, rains, the lady beetles, local food systems, or time-tested farming techniques, this question has begun to...
With Goshen College roots, Lotus is on the road to success
From the basement below the Leaf Raker to on stage in Japan, the band Lotus has emerged from humble beginnings to achieve great success. The instrumental electronic jam band, which splits time between Philadelphia, Pa. and Denver, Colo., continues to…
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