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Huskie Alternative Breaks to hold Nicaragua trip

By Northern Star staff | February 9, 2016

Huskie Alternative Breaks will hold its international alternative break May 15-22 in Nicaragua to do volunteer work, according to an NIU news release. The trip’s theme is “Rural Education in a Developing Country” and students will be able to assist...

Students and church leaders from Glad Tidings Assembly of God and Bethel Assembly of God traveled to Nicaragua to help out a an aid camp.

DeKalb county churches volunteer abroad in Nicaragua

By Danny Ciamprone | April 18, 2011

DeKALB | In the second poorest country in the Northern Hemisphere, pieces of scrap metal are what children call home and garbage from the dump is what they call food. But for a week in March, they were aided by this community. From March 19 to 26, 10...