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Photos courtesy of Groundwork Institute: worse case http://www.groundwork.org/English/nicaragua-en/photos.html project Mission Statement Improving the living conditionsof the Nicaraguan people.
VFY
comes to Nicaragua to implement trade education
Housing doesn’t have to be like this if us as global humanitarians and business people decide to get involved and do something worthwhile to improve the living conditions of the people living in huts like this. Businesses are needed to help in the transition to make Nicaragua and other countries living in poverty change and grow into becoming industrious. It can only help if businesses and their people decide to get involved and use some of their profits to help others. What’s in for you and your company if you become involved in improving the living conditions and job training? A government that will allow new businesses in their country to utilize lower wage job creation and government incentives for manufacturing with eager people willing to be trained for employment, will create loyal employees for years to come and grateful for the chance. _________________________
Project Description Training Sweat Equity Ownerships
Kenneth L. Sackett Senior partner of the KLS Group and a board member and officer for Visions For Youth Inc has brought Groundwork Institute Inc and the Global Ecological Housing Alliance together to join in the project that was introduced to the need for housing in Nicaragua. In a letter from Jose Dionisio Marenco Gutierrez, the Mayor of Managua, who states that the city wants to build new housing and industry. The Mayor’s letter states: “Nicaraguan foreign investment law allows for 100% foreign ownership as well as legal protection of the interests of foreign investors and does not place any restriction on the repatriation of profits earned. The City can provide all available corporate relocation incentive packages, which will help to promote the development of industries and jobs for the residents of the City of Managua.” The letter goes on to state, “The city currently has specific plans to support the development of 80,000 affordably priced homes to meet the needs of the working class residents of our city. This development needs to be completed as rapidly as possible to meet the city's immediate needs for affordable housing. The city currently owns sufficient land required for the building of at least 80,000 single-family homes for this affordable housing initiative.” (A copy of the Mayors letter of understanding will be included in the exhibits to this document)_________________________
Photos provided by courtesy of Groundwork Institute from their previous housing projects in Nicaragua.
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This is
considered shelter and home for many poor Nicaraguan people. Many of
us (Americans, Canadians, Asians, Koreans, Australians, British,
Germans, Dutch and others) would not even put a field animal in
this, let alone an entire family. 
Making
cement tile
for roofs in remote area. |
Framing, education and implementation for steel and wood. |
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Plumbing education and on the job apprentice training. |
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Cement Floor pouring, sanding, stamping, staining and finishing education implementation. |
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In addition, we see our work as integral with education as well as social and economic issues. Our projects will be supported with financial contributions from foundations, church groups and individuals
The largest part of our support for international projects will come from time donated by top level environmental professionals including architects, planners, and specialists in sewage, solar energy, and engineers and builders who desire to work with disadvantaged communities in Central America. As in Nicaragua, we expect the local government we work with to provide the local resources and essentials needed to train laborers.
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VFY and the group will provide the high level technical assistance that would ordinarily be unavailable and unaffordable to these groups. VFY will form a foundation for job training with other non-profits bringing together materials and humanitarian support for this type of work. VFY is recognized by the IRS as a 501 c(3) non-profit corporation. Contributions are tax deductible.
This is a part of Nicaragua that most people never see it is a home to over 1,500 families that live, work and eat from the waste land fill in Managua Nicaragua.
The homes do not have running water, toilets, lighting or heating.
At any given time there could be a fire a few feet from their unsafe shack or worse yet underneath the ground they are sleeping.
Visions For Youth Inc a non-profit 502 c(3) group plans on changing things for these people who believe it or not work to not only take care of themselves but help the Managua environment by dong the hands on recycling on a daily bases. They earn around ten dollars a day for their labor on a good day and around $7 a day on average.
They do this because Nicaragua does not have a recycling program in effect and these people only take what they can hand carry and sell to salvage collectors.
Our goal is to help these people to establish a recycling organization that will provide better income, housing with utilities, bathrooms, kitchens, and education by providing schools. The government is willing to provide safe land for these people to live on.
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The child is standing near an area that ignited from the dangerous
methane gases that ignite at any given time.
Fire is one of the dangers of living at the waste land. Infection is
another as many of the people like the child above have little
protection from cuts.
· Bathing comes from a hose or showering in the rain. Laundry happens from catching ride into town with someone to go to the laundry mat.
· VFY plans on working with Business Men's Fellowship in Nicaragua and internationally and with volunteer church groups who want to help in the aid of Nicaragua’s impoverished people in hope of changing the lives of so many of the poor.
· You and church or Business Men's Fellowship can help and if you call our chairman he will explain what God plans on doing over the next five years to change things.
If you would like to help contact Kenneth L. Sackett Sr. Chairman of Visions for Youth Inc he can be reached at:
Phone:
(707) 544-1430
Email:
Kenneth@Visionsforyouth.org
or
Kenneth@klsgroup.info
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