The Condega Homemakers Project: Sending Women's Building Brigades to Nicaragua

Panel above each door in the Community of Women United, made by the Mujeres Constructoras

home·mak·ers housewives or housekeepers. women's brigades to Nicaragua helping to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Mitch.

First CHP Brigade, February 1999

The severe flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch destroyed 550 houses and affected 10,000 people in the poor rural town of Condega, Nicaragua. We are a small, New York-based, grass-roots organization of women who have been helping Nicaraguan women, many of them single mothers, rebuild their homes since the hurricane. We continue to organize brigades of women to travel to Condega for six- to eight-week periods. In addition to women builders, we also need volunteers to help us raise funds for building materials and travel expenses.

If you can help, please contact us today at homemakers@homemakers.org.

About the Condega Homemakers Project!

• Report from Lucinda Grinnell (Jan 2000)
• CHP First Year Report
  
• Photographs from CHP Brigades
• Letter from Margarita Suarez (Dec 1999)
• Report from Jewish Volunteer Corps / CHP Volunteer Jennifer Burney (10 Nov 1999)
• Report from the Women's Construction Collective (May 1999) [En Español]
• Overview of the Project
• CHP Construction manual

Support the Condega Homemakers Project!

• Send tax-deductible contributions
• Buy a Condega Homemakers Project T-shirt
• Join a Brigade - Information for Brigadistas

About Condega

• About La Asociación Colectivo de Mujeres Constructoras de Condega
• Maps and Photographs of Condega, Nicaragua
• Information about Condega - Letters, Reports, Other Links

See also:

• , our 501(3)(c) not-for-profit fiscal sponsor
•  AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE, a generous source of funding and volunteers
• Other information about Nicaragua

Last updated: Wednesday, 01-Mar-2000 00:40:14 EST