Videos

Fair Trade

Fair Trade Produces Fair Education

Fair trade coffee--from the fields of Nicaragua to the store shelves in Madison, Wisconsin

Women's Empowerment

Empowering Women Farmers

WCCN & La Fem help rural Nicaraguan women achieve economic independence through land ownership.

Microfinance Project

Capital for Communities Fund borrowers Julio Cesar Cardenas has been borrowing from Capital for Communities Fund partner agency PRESTANIC for years. In this video, he describes how microcredit loans have changed his life.

The April 20th Cooperative

An interview with Ruben Poveda, the General Manager of the April 20th Cooperative.

Mano a Mano Cooperative

During the study tour in the summer of 2009, WCCN interviewed people from a number of its partner agencies in Nicaragua. Here, we present Ivania Zamora Rodriguez, a representative of Mano a Mano Cooperative in Waslala.

WCCN has a second video on Mano a Mano: an interview with Imelda Peralta, the General Manager. This interview was filmed two years before the one with Ivania.

FDL

In the spring of 2009, WCCN invited four guests to attend its Annual Meeting to represent the four countries in which we now work. The first interview we present is with Elizabeth Campos, the Financial Director of FDL, from Nicaragua.

CDRO

This is an interview with César Tocón, the General Manager of our first Guatemalan partner agency, CDRO.

Fundación Campo

Our next video is with Walberto Lazo, the Deputy General Manager of Fundación Campo, one of WCCN's new partner agencies in El Salvador.

Credisol

We also have a new partner in Honduras: Credisol. This is our interview with its General Manager, Eva Mendoza.

PRESTANIC

Armando Gutierrez is the General Manager of PRESTANIC, WCCN's first partner agency.

Housing Project

Habitar

WCCN works with Habitar, a network of housing organizations, to provide improvements to the living conditions of the poor. Here, we present the work of one project.

 

Women's Organizations

Through its women's empowerment initiatives, WCCN partners with several dynamic Nicaraguan women's organizations. Learn how these partnerships are affecting the lives of poor rural women in Nicaragua.

The Women's Movement of Nicaragua 1998-2008

Study Tours

Watch our first study tour video!