Category: Nicaragua

Saving Seed

March 8, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Congregational Trip, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Nicaragua
Rebecca Hennessy lives in Portsmouth, NH and traveled to Nicaragua as a member of South Church in cooperation with the UUCSJ. She is a mother and a garlic farmer. She owns a small value-added food business, Backyard Garlic, coaches ultimate frisbee and likes exploring new places. Memories of Nicaragua continue to organize in my mind […]

Carlos and the Guardians

January 31, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Environmental Justice, Nicaragua, Religious Professionals
Rev. Paul Langston-Daley is the Senior Program Leader for Justice Building at UUSC. In November 2016, he travelled to Nicaragua on UUCSJ’s Guardians of the River: Climate Justice for Theologians journey specifically for religious professionals (ministers, seminarians and religious educators). It had already been a difficult year, and then November came and with it, the election […]

UUCSJ By The Numbers

October 27, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, First Nations, Florida, General Assembly, Haiti, Immigration, India, Internship, Nicaragua, Racial Justice, RAICES, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity, Volunteering, West Virginia, Young Adult, Youth
The UU College of Social Justice was jointly founded in the summer of 2012 by the UUA and UUSC, so this year we are celebrating a big anniversary. We are grateful for all of our alumni and supporters who have made our work possible! In honor of of all of you and our anniversary, here […]

Beyond Fair Trade: Building Just Relationships

October 20, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Nicaragua
Jan Taddeo (writer) and JenJoy Royal (photographer) travelled with UUCSJ to Nicaragua in February 2017 for our Beyond Fair Trade: Building Just Relationships immersion journey. We partner with Equal Exchange for this journey to explore the power of fair trade to improve the lives of producers and help consumers live their values. To learn more about this journey […]

It All Makes A Difference

June 7, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Nicaragua, Religious Professionals
Guardians of the River: Climate Justice for Theologians 2016 group Jacquline Brett is a recent graduate of Meadville Lombard’s Masters of Divinity program (MDiv) and will be at Meadville for another year for the Master of Arts in Leadership Studies (MALS) program. She has participated in UUCSJ’s 2015 Religious Professionals Journey to the Border and […]

What Would FEM Do?

February 6, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Congregational Trip, Economic Justice, Nicaragua
Kirsten Hunter is the Director of Religious Education at South Church in Portsmouth, NH and journeyed to Nicaragua with a small group from the church in January, 2017. I have been back from Nicaragua for a little over a week now. Such an astounding moment – to leave As Trump was preparing to take office […]

The Days Here are Full, and Fuller Are Our Minds

January 18, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Congregational Trip, Nicaragua
by Eleanor Kane Ellie Kane is a member of South Church Unitarian Universalist in Portsmouth, NH. She is currently in Nicaragua with nine others from her church on an immersion journey of spirit and solidarity with out partner FEM. If the first aspect of Nicaragua that left us stunned was warm air, green trees, and […]

My Return to Nicaragua

December 16, 2015 | Heather Vickery | Nicaragua
Nicaragua is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been – stunning landscapes of mountains, beaches, jungles, and patch-worked small farms sweep up and down the hillsides everywhere. The mountains surrounding Matagalpa But most beautiful to me is the spirit of the Nicaraguan people: though I know all the perils of generalizations, I have […]