Project allocations part one

It’s been quiet at Fieldbase over the last few days since all the Project Managers left for their project planning visits.

Radio reports from all the Alpha teams confirm that everyone has arrived safe and well, and that they’ve all got beautiful sunny weather, which hasn’t quite made its way to Fieldbase yet!

So, here we go with some of the allocations so far and pictures of our happy teams as they set out on their PPVs, starting with our community projects…



Alpha Seven - Achuapa

Katie, Mike and Natalie will be working high in the hills above Achuapa, in one of the poorest most remote areas of Nicaragua, to bring clean and safe drinking water to families in the community of Los Playones.

This project is a multi-stakeholder partnership with the local community, the Cooperativa Juan Francisco Paz Silva, Nottingdale International and Raleigh. At present the local people get their water from the river which often dries up in summer or comes from polluted water sources. The group will be living directly with families in the village and working with the local community to dam small streams and build tanks to collect the water from where it can run through pipes to all the local houses.



Alpha Eight – Miraflor- Cana Florida

Lizzie, Spiller and Sarah will be based in the Miraflor reserve, 206sqkm of beautiful mountainous terrain with various different ecosystems such as tropical savannah, dry tropical forest and mountain cloud forest.

Within the reserve there are a number of communities living through subsistence farming and gaining income from coffee growing, cattle farming and some small tourism initiatives. The people have few resources and lack access to basic services such as health and education. In the community of Cana Florida, there are currently no facilities for very young children to learn and the community perseveres with basic lessons in people’s houses and so the team on this project will be building a preschool.



Alpha Nine – Conte Burika
Situated on the remote Burika peninsula near the Panamanian border, Kirsty, James Burnham and Helena will be based in Alto Guaymi, in the Conte Burika Indigenous Reserve. The community is extremely remote – to get there you have to walk 8-hours along a beach and then up into the hills behind.

The Ngobe (or Guaymi) Indigenous people who live there are subsistence farmers who maintain the cultural traditions of their ancestors. Currently there is one secondary school in the indigenous reserve built by Raleigh previously, but it is heavily over-subscribed and they have don’t have enough classrooms and so this project will construct a school building from wood which will provide a pre-school for the youngest members of the community.

We'll update the environmental and Trek ones shortly so check back soon