Word: prusia
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...also facilitated forays into entrepreneurship and community service. Besides teaching volunteer workshops for SPARK, an after school program in Boston for inner-city youth, he works on “La Casas de Experanza,” a micro-enterprise project aimed at helping develop the slums of La Prusia, near Grenada, Nicaragua, by giving them the means to support themselves in an independent, sustainable way. “I’m researching environmentally conscious kiln options and developing a business model,” he says. “As of now, it’s basically...
...Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum, Harvard Student Agencies, and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. For at least one of the students who came away empty-handed last night, hope was not lost. David J. Tischfield ’09, one of the members of the La Prusia Micro-enterprise Project—an enterprise aiming to set up a ceramics factory in a Nicaragua slum—was one of his first forays into entrepreneurship on campus. Though he was awarded no money through I3, he said he still planned to pursue the project through outside grants during...
...meantime, the umbrella organization, Casas de la Esperanza, will continue its work in La Prusia, with the hopes that the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project will soon be able to further improve the living conditions of these people...
...Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project remains in planning stages, but Sáenz-Badillos and others are hopeful that the effort will take root in La Prusia...
...helps when these people feel other people are thinking of them,” Mansfield says. And as Harvard students, and the people of La Prusia work together on this project, they will shape more than just clay bowls—they’ll shape a better life...