Greg Bowles, PGL's in-country program director, will have a busy January as he administers visits by two delegations--first the annual January group of Gettysburg College students, followed closely by a delegation representing the Adams County Young Grower Association.
The schedule for the College delegation of ten students, led by biology Professor Gerardo Carfagno, is January 10-21. Included in the experience is participation in a workshop to be held by the art school, Taller Xuchialt Artistico, and two days of work in a solar oven project in the town of Santa Rosa de Los Parrales. Greg Bowles, PGL's in-country director, has also set up a number of events through which the students will get acquainted with Nicaragua, including time at Poneloya Beach, the Isla Venado National Park, two volcanoes, Granada and Managua.
The agricultural group will be in Nicaragua January 20-25, spending most of its time in the village of Talolinga, where it will be working to advance the extensionist projects that were initiated during a similar group's earlier visit to Talolinga.
Tara Baugher and Maggie Reid, members of the Young Grower Association, helped organize the cooperative venture with PGL to improve Talolinga's agricultural efforts. The group from Adams County will spend time with Javier, a member of the community who, in the first phrase of the project, is being instructed as an agricutural extensionist.