Agradecido from 4Walls
As the season approaches, the 4Walls Project is agradecido (thankful!)
4Walls Project Spring/Summer 2019
“It is getting close to the rainy season. Now I won’t be getting wet with my children. For that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
4Walls Update
Quiet lives have been disrupted but the 4Walls Project continues building houses in Nicaragua. Conflicts between competing interests have created serious political strife in Nicaragua since April 2018. The situation grew severe enough for the U.S. Embassy in Managua to withdraw staff and issue an advisory for U.S. travelers.Our little town of El Sauce has been quiet […]
4 Wall Projects in Progress
The 4 Walls Project has been very active since the beginning of Janurary 2018 ! Keuka College sent students and 2 professors to volunteer and work with 3 families which were chosen by the local comite to receive the 4 Walls houses. The best part I have heard is how the connections were built among […]
Barrio Valencia House 129
A supporter in Buffalo, Gloria Masters, raised the money to build 4Walls house #129. We made this little video to show her how much she changed a family’s life.
Keira Donnelly — 4Walls Student Ambassador
Meet Keira Donnelly, who just got back from her first trip El Sauce. Keira is 13 and will enter 8th grade at Allendale Columbia in September.
While in Nicaragua, Keira commented that she hadn’t understood much about the trip before leaving Rochester. “Yeah, I knew we were going to build a house, but I wasn’t sure how it would work. I didn’t know how much we would get to know the family. I didn’t understand how emotional it would be,” she said. “I wish I had known more.”
4Walls First Student Learning Trip to El Sauce
We love this video/music montage of the latest 4Walls trip. The videographer is Gwen, a Keuka College student who travelled in January on Keuka’s first student learning trip. She captured the building time in El Sauce, as well as some R&R time in the colonial city of León and at the Pacific beach called Las Peñitas.
4 Walls @ Imagine RIT
The 4Walls Project will be part of this year’s Imagine RIT.
Imagine RIT showcases the most innovative and creative projects of RIT students, including their project to create roofs for 4Walls houses.
Meghan’s Story
Why I was inspired My name is Meghan Haslam. I came to El Sauce, Nicaragua in November of 2006 as an Environmental Education Peace Corps Volunteer. The inspiration for the 4 Walls Project stems from an encounter with a young man named Juan Pablo who grew up moving from one house to another. When he […]