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Encyclopedia > Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua

The Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN) is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with Nicaraguans to promote social and economic justice through alternative models of development and activism. In the 1980s, WCCN was a leader in the US-Nicaragua "sister city" movement, which promoted people-to-people projects and locally-based "municipal foreign policies" by individual U.S. cities as an alternative to the militaristic foreign policy of the U.S. government under President Ronald Reagan.


Currently WCCN's main programs are the Women's Empowerment Project and the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund.


See also: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador


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WCCN's History - Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN) (443 words)
Wisconsin and Nicaragua have been official "sister states" since the 1960s, and WCCN's mission and activities build on that historic relationship.
WCCN was founded by Wisconsin citizens who were outraged by the US-supported war being waged against their sister state and came together to express their opposition.
WCCN's loan fund project began in 1991 as the Nicaraguan Community Development Loan Fund (NCDLF), a partnership between WCCN and the Nicaraguan Council of Protestant Churches (CEPAD).
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