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Nicaragua Tours & Trips
Join us in exploring the beautiful country of Nicaragua
Our excursions show the contrast between agro-industrial practices that contribute to poverty and disease, and sustainable agriculture systems that promote healthy community development.
Spanish Language School
La Isla Foundation offers Spanish Language courses year-round to enrich the experience of short-term and long-term visitors who wish to make the most out of their time in and around León, Nicaragua.
Our Mission
- Provide Urgent Medical Care and Community Outreach
- Studying the Causes of the Epidemic
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- Developing Sustainable Agriculture Alternatives for the Community
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- Fighting for Human Rights Protections and Labor Reforms
- Projects to Raise Funding and Increase Awareness of the Epidemic
Our Goals
Workers, producers and consumers creating an equitable agricultural system
La Isla Foundation is dedicated to fighting an epidemic of kidney disease in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua.
We work with health officials and researchers to provide better medical treatment for the sick and to study the causes of the epidemic.
We support and organize workers and their families through education programs, health initiatives, and economic development projects. And we are committed to breaking the silence that shrouds this epidemic.
We want to expose the industrial agricultural system that has helped to create this crisis.
We want the world to know what is happening to the people of Chichigalpa.
Special Announcements
ONE TIME CONTRIBUTION
MONTHLY CONTRIBUTION
30 August 2010 - La Isla Foundation Achieves Strategic Plan Goals
Jason Glaser, President, La Isla Foundation
We’re happy to announce that we have recently completed Phase 1 of our strategic plan. The focus of this phase was to produce studies that would provide a set of data from which we can formulate an effective strategy that addresses this evolving public health and humanitarian crisis. During this time we also implemented infrastructural, educational and sanitation programs in order to both serve and engage the community. This process of empowerment is key, as our goal at La Isla Foundation USA is to eventually put the local operations of the Foundation into the hands of the community. READ MORE
15 July 2010 - LA judge dumps $2.4 million judgment against Dole
12 July 2010 - Legal Advisory: Tellez v. Dole Food Company Inc
Key Legal Questions and Answers in Dole Banana Case - -
VIDEO - Dole Food Company: Bribing A Few to Silence the Many
The primary mission of La Isla Foundation in Nicaragua is to coordinate the resources of local institutions, including Autonomous National University of Nicaragua-León (UNAN-León), hospitals, government ministries, and community leaders to determine the cause of the CRI epidemic in western Nicaragua. Our goals are to identify the causes of CRI, facilitate treatment, educate workers, and support impacted families.