Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Nearly 46% of Nicaraguans live below the poverty line and one out of three children suffers from chronic malnutrition.
The purpose of these trips is to build a fish farm and sustainable agriculture training center in the Diriamba region of Nicaragua. This center will be Morning Star Fishermen’s base of operations in Central America, making it easier and more accessible for local poor communities in the region to get help and information necessary to learn how to produce quality fish and vegetables on their own.
Initial funding for the project has been provided by the Rotary Foundation and MSF. We have already built a road and a well at the project site.
If you want to be a part of the team making a difference in the lives of the people of central Nicaragua and beyond please contact us right away. By helping to build the facility you will be giving a hand up rather than a handout to the desperately poor people of Nicaragua.
Current Upcoming Projects and Partners:
Nicaraguan Training Center and fish farm, in partnership with the MSF
Rotary Foundation, MSSI Inc., and Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA) of Nicaragua.
Migrant Farm worker Community Aquaculture training program and System for Farm Worker’s Self Help in Dade City Florida, a partnership between MSF and The Harry Chapin Foundation.
Alternative Energy technology development program:
Fish Hybridization project
They Help us help needy:
A.G. Edwards, Center for Independence, Citrus Chrysler, Civic Ventures, G-Cat Multihulls LLC., Harry Chapin Foundation, Hillsborough Community College, Love a Child Inc., Mission Jamaica, Tampa Tribune, The Rotary Foundation, St. Andrew’s Benevolence Fund, Somebody Cares Tampa Bay, St. Leo University, Swenson Foundation and many Churches, Friends and Supporters around the world.
We have already started making a difference:
We have trained teachers to educate entire communities to develop an ecologically sound, sustainable, food source and by doing so, overcome the blight of hunger and malnutrition.
We have already completed training centers in Haiti and Jamaica.
Through our efforts MSF has donated since 2002:
23056 Hrs of Student Training
$ 311,256.00
Student/Volunteer Accommodation
$44,250.00
Emergency Shelter
$15,000.00
Training Systems
$5,200.00
Training for Migrant Workers
$17,360.00
Building Materials, Nicaragua
$14,875.00
First Cooperative Association of States for Scholarship Students
Second Group from Cooperative Association of States for Scholarship
Morning Star Fishermen awarded certificates of completion to 35 CASS (Cooperative Association of Student Scholarship) students from Central America and the Caribbean. Each group studied at Hillsborough Community College on a two year program, returned to their homelands to two years community service, teaching others the art and science of aquaculture and aquaponics.
Initial funding for the project has been provided by the Rotary Foundation and MSF. We have already built a road and a well at the project site.
Nicaraguan Training Center and fish farm, in partnership with the MSF
Rotary Foundation, MSSI Inc., and Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA) of Nicaragua.
A.G. Edwards, Center for Independence, Citrus Chrysler, Civic Ventures, G-Cat Multihulls LLC., Harry Chapin Foundation, Hillsborough Community College, Love a Child Inc., Mission Jamaica, Tampa Tribune, The Rotary Foundation, St. Andrew’s Benevolence Fund, Somebody Cares Tampa Bay, St. Leo University, Swenson Foundation and many Churches, Friends and Supporters around the world.
