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The Nest Trust

Nicaragua English and Sustainable Tourism
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The NEST Trust: A dream coming true
The dream was sustainability from the English and community tourism project with UCA Miraflor.
Sustainability, for us, means: locals (our students) trained and teaching English using suitable learning materials. 

The Nest Trust was established in the UK in 2006 with the aim of:
  1. promoting sustainable tourism and sustainable livelihoods through community and rural tourism related activities
  2. facilitating the learning of English for Community and Rural Tourism
  3. spreading the educational materials developed throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America
  4. alleviating poverty and hardship
 The Nest Trust arose from the English and community tourism project with UCA Miraflor, a personal, and completely voluntary, initiative which ran from 2002 - 2007.

Two thirds of the dream have been realised:
  • There are English speaking guides.
  • There are specific teaching materials for others to use.
  • There are (ex)students teaching English in their communities using these materials.
  • And the first(ex)student is studying English at University
Current activities:
  • supporting Miraflor students who are now teaching English in their communities;
  • disseminating the specific English teaching materials;
  • offering part scholarships to students of UCA Miraflor;
  • supporting community-led [solar powered] computer classes.
The project has brought education and employment opportunities; it has made a difference.

Since 2007 the Trust has produced specific English for Rural Tourism teaching materials.

Six modules, with the essential accompanying recordings and teacher support documents can be downloaded, for free, from this site: click on The NEST teaching materials.

You can view a sample unit of each module on the same link. Printed copies are available in Esteli, Nicaragua at cost price. Contact us on info@thenesttrust.org.uk