Malacatoya, Nicaragua: technical sheet

Malacatoya, Nicaragua: technical sheetThis document shows how the regional government and two local organizations gave an immediate, flexible and integrative response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. Integration of all the actors of the process allowed to multiply resources and became a synergy that built more than was originally planned.
A participative methodology was set up, and then, the future home owners decided the style, green areas and the distribution of the houses in the land.

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Orlando Espinosa
Cuban
Civil Engineer
Spanish, Russian, some English.
Equipment development, MCR workshop installation, operative project implementation

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In 2005, SofoNic has started a dual education program for masons in Nicaragua, using its house-building programs as a base. Teaming up with the local technical school in Jinotepe they are graduating about ten masons every year since. Most f them have found jobs in construction or have started a business on their own. SofoNic has contracted several of them as master masons in the reconstruction programs in Haiti.