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It's amazing how much can be accomplished when people and groups with similar missions team up to change the world. Our partners, listed below, have helped The Pulsera Project in countless ways and we hope that you'll consider supporting their causes as well as ours.
Please email us if you'd like to team up here in the US or abroad.
Our Partners
Founded in 2010, Jovenes Unidos is our artisan cooperative of young adults who spent part of their childhoods growing up on the streets and in shelters for street kids. After leaving the shelters, these young men and women had few opportunities for employment or higher education in Nicaragua.
The Pulsera Project, which for three years had supported the shelters directly, decided to re-direct our support to providing sustainable jobs and funding to this cooperative of 21 young people, many of whom lead their own community development projects.
Co-op members meet twice monthly in a house provided by the Pulsera Project. They sell their pulseras, vote on micro loans funded by the Pulsera Project and also decide how best to fund the community development projects that they lead.
American Jonathan Roice and crew work with ex-street kids from Nicaragua's capital of Managua. Over many years, they have built an effective program for bringing these teens "from the world of the streets to a world of respect."
Long before the Pulsera Project existed, Sí a la Vida youths made pulseras as part of an arts and crafts program. Now, we buy many of their pulseras. The youths receive pocket money up-front and all proceeds from the sale of the pulseras in the U.S. go back to Sí a la Vida to provide the kids with things like school supplies, shoes, bikes, sports equipment, and fieldtrips.
United Students for Fair Trade is a national collective of students advocating for a new type of economic system---one which empowers producers in developing nations so they can work towards economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Much like the Pulsera Project, USFT looks to the power and creativity of young people in working toward a more colorful world based on equality, justice, and integrity. Fair-trade goods not only present opportunity for people in developing nations to sell their products, but just as importantly give U.S. consumers a window to support, experience, and learn from new cultures.
The Pulsera Project is sponsoring USFT's 2012 National Convergence, and hopes to partner with many campus Fair Trade Campaigns in the future.
With more than 17,000 student members at 366 college campuses, APO, a co-ed service fraternity, develops leaders through service to humanity. APO chapters at 25 universities have raised an amazing $40,000 in support of the Pulsera Project and Nicaraguan youth.
APO student leaders not only provide an outlet for Nicaraguan students to sell their art, empowering youths to raise themselves up, but they also support the many Nicaraguan adults who have invested their lives in nurturing the self-esteem of these amazing youths.
Jovenes Unidos Para
Una Nueva Comienza
