For eight members of OSU Enactus, winter break meant a trip to someplace warm, but not to rest and relax.
Enactus is an international group through which university students work to discover their own potential while helping to improve the economic situation of others, and the Beaver chapter of the organization sent a contingent to Nicaragua for continued work on a microloan program there. OSU Enactus has made multiple journeys to Nicaragua, including one last July.
“There were many heartwarming stories that gave us contentment for all of the hard work that had been put in,” Garret Flowers reported on the OSU Enactus blog.
One of them involved a woman named Andrea Sanhante, who has a business that sells tortillas, beans and cheese to community members.
“We were inspired by her work ethic and her ability to multitask with her career and her family,” Flowers wrote. “It is amazing to see how the program impacted her small business. She has said that she has increased her profits by nearly 50 percent.”
For more blog posts from OSU Enactus members, check out http://osuenactussuenosdelatierra.wordpress.com/, and for more information on the organization, send an email to enactus@oregonstate.edu
