Banana Workers
While on the January Bucknell Brigade trip to Nicaragua, Grace, Connie and Muyambi met the banana workers camping outside the National Assembly in Manuagua.
1,200 people. Black plastic tarps.
Not enough food.
Not enough shelter.
That was what we saw. It was definitely difficult to stand among the banana workers learning about their story... their story of suffering from Nemagon, a pesticide used on the plantations where they used to work. Some of them have infertility problems, some have cancer, some have died.
They asked us to help them, to bring their story back to America. But how can we help? We found a way through the Projects for Peace proposal. And to our surprise, we were one of the hundred groups in United States selected to receive the grant of $10,000 to make this possible.
And so, we went back to Nicaragua.