Center for Development in Central America/RC Cuidad Sandino
Sarah Junkin Woodard of the Rotary Club of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, will join us as our speaker on Thursday, 18 March. Living and working in Nicaragua, with the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Jubilee House Community Inc and its project, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA), she is a founding member of the Ciudad Sandino Rotary Club, building bridges and opening opportunities for international service connections between U.S. Rotarians and Nicaraguans, actively participating in both COVID-19 relief and hurricane relief efforts following November's double hurricanes Eta and Iota. We have been assisting in their work since Kathleen Murdock and Mike Woodard, also of Rotary and the JHC-CDCA, spoke to the Homer-Kachemak Bay Rotary in 2018.
Growing up in Taiwan, Sarah returned to the U.S. in 1968 for her college and post-grad education, then teaching public high school social studies and participating in a variety of peace and justice activities. In 1979, along with Kathleen and Mike, she was one of the founders of the JHC. Originally serving the poor in Statesville, NC, the JHC began and operated shelters for the homeless and battered women, provided medical and legal advocacy on behalf of the poor, and joined with others across the Carolinas in Peace and Justice work. In 1994, the focus of service moved to Nicaragua, where she has lived ever since. Unable to visit us personally because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, Sarah brings us an opportunity via ZOOM to build further connections with Rotarians and the work of the JHC-CDCA in Ciudad Sandino, located just west of the capital of Managua.
For more information:
https://rotaryciudadsandino.org/
https://jhc-cdca.org/
Email: Sarah@jhc-cdca.org
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Sarah Junkin Woodard
Jubilee House Community, Inc.
Center for Development in Central America
https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/jhc-cdca
