Esteli is a lovely town in northern Nicaragua. Emma "found" her service assignment on the field trip the group took to Esteli in May and it has turned out to be a great experience. The cooperative is built on the site of an old garbage dump and is largely funded by a Dutch organization. The women collect paper from the new, nearby dump and are also beginning to have businesses deliver office papers for them to recycle for the paper-making process.

To make the paper unique they incorporate various organic fiber, such as the corn husk in the photo. Emma's job was to help them come up with new design ideas. And as you can see, she was quite prolific.

Rachel and Michelle worked at AMNLAE which is a organization that works to promote women's concerns: in health, education and legal issues. Unfortunately it is struggling with funding right now so there was not as much to do as Michelle and Rachel would have liked. They finally came up with a research assignment for them, to go into the barrios (neighborhoods) and interview women about health practices, sanitization and family planning.