Local Representative

Johanna Reimer

 Thank you Johannah for your 6-month internship and the abundance of contribution and friendship to those working with AACC and PIEAT.  The school is almost complete – life long relationships established – and some wonderful art and English classes throughout the valley. Thank you for your words and photos to share with all our supporters.

Johanna is a 24-year old student at Naropa University majoring in Peace Studies and Visual Arts with a personal focus on education as an instrument for social transformation and justice. She is very grateful for the opportunity she has had to learn tools such as dialogue, critical pedagogy, nonviolent resistance, and different peace building initiatives around the world, but feels that it is not enough to simply bank these theories. She wants to go into the world and live them, breath them, and live them! She strongly believes that it is through education that our world will begin to transform.

Ever since her first experiences traveling in impoverished countries in Africa and Asia she has been overwhelmed by the questions of where to start because there is such great need. Despite her limited Spanish, she knows that it is in Nicaragua with the women if PIEAT organizing the building of a community supported vocational school for the street children of Jalapa that she will find her opportunity.  She is very excited to start her work, which in her words is to "provide these street children with some of the basic human right every child deserves - the right to shelter, food, protection from harm, and EDUCATION!"