The next Carpenteros' Service Trip is scheduled for November 22 - December 3. We will be working in the village of Azacualpa, which is close to the Nicaragua border, building latrines, pilas and concrete floors. This is a very poor and spread-out community with a CRC church and a school. We hope to visit Tigre Island to see how the communities there are progressing and to meet old friends. A few members of the team will also stop over at El Carrizal to meet with the coffee growers who participated in this year's coffee exporting project. It will be a busy trip.
Azacualpa belongs to the municipality of Triunfo, departament of Choluteca. The village is located 19 kilometres from the downtown area of Triunfo, and 4 km off the PanAmerican highway that leads to the nearby Republic of Nicaragua. The community has a dirt road that is accessible most months of the year.
Presently this community has an approximate population of 3400 inhabitants distributed with 326 homes. The community has some basic services such as: potable water, electric power, kindergarden, public school, basic community centre, health centre. It also has a factory that processes cashew seed, a cultural saloon, a basketball courtyard and a soccer field.
The community has a community board, water committee, environmental committee, teachers’ association, parents’ association, sport committee, credit unions, and sports.
The community has seven churches; 1 Catholic church and 6 evangelical churches (Christian Reformed Church, the Baptist, Iglesia de Jesucristo, Ecos de Luz, la Asambleas de Dios and Adventist).
The principal sources of income for members of the community are related to agriculture, although most of their farming is for personal consumption, as well as a small amount of sale of corn, beans, watermelon, cashews, melons, tomatoes, chili peppers and plantain. A small group of the community works in the shrimp sector.
It is worth mentioning that all these products are used for self consumption and very little for sale because people won’t dare to crop big plantations because they don’t have the necessary land and because the high costs of supplies, adding also bad winters that have caused the loss of many crops leaving families with debts.
In the community the selling of clothes and shoes are made in Guasaule, which is located on the border with Nicaragua, where everything is much cheaper, but when they need to buy food, vegetables and supplies it is bought in Choluteca.
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