Acropolis News

With the slogan ‘Urgent Ideas’ New Acropolis took part in the 5th edition of TEDx Managua, which took place at the Olof Palme Convention Center, in the city of Managua. TEDx is a space that promotes the exchange of ideas, debates and interaction among participants through conferences and symposia on various issues. Participants enjoyed spinning the ‘Wheel of Virtues’, whereby they received a volunteer-made philosophical phrase corresponding to the virtue they landed on.

New Acropolis Nicaragua volunteers carried out a day of volunteering at the La Casita del Árbol community library, located in the municipality of Tipitapa – a project initiated by young people interested in promoting reading among children and fellow young people.

In addition to painting some walls of the center, they restored some furniture such as work tables and benches used by children who regularly attend the center. We appreciate the support of companies like SINSA and Sherwin Williams, who donated the materials.

New Acropolis Nicaragua visited the shelter of the Adam Foundation, an organization composed of young volunteers, lovers of animals, which rescues and rehabilitates abandoned dogs and then gives them up for adoption. The group of New Acropolis volunteers helped out by walking the pets, cleaning their homes, bathing and feeding them.

New Acropolis Nicaragua gave a talk on animal welfare for the workers of the Group Real Intercontinental hotel at its facilities. This group joined their efforts to the initiative of New Acropolis volunteers supporting a better care for our pets.

Both the hotel and the workers made donations of food, towels and sheets for dogs, which were delivered to representatives of the Adán Foundation, who were present at the seminar and presented interesting facts and information regarding the operation of animal shelters, and the ways people can adopt pets.

New Acropolis Nicaragua in support of the Nicaraguan Red Cross organized an annual day of blood donation among its volunteers and friends.

Volunteers and friends of New Acropolis visited the Cañón de Somoto national monument, located in the municipality of Somoto, department of Madriz, about 3 hours from the Capital.

The Cañón of Somoto is a destination that offers an environment that is unique in the country.  Its antiquity is estimated at almost 12 million of years, and the coming together of multiple factors have produced this very beautiful landscape.

New Acropolis organized a lecture in Nicaragua that commemorated the work done by two Nicaraguan thinkers whose work helped forge national history.

In this context, speakers presented a brief overview of the life and legacy of Salvador Mendieta, unionist thinker of Central America, and Azarias H. Pallais, humanist priest.

Salvador Mendieta was a distinguished lawyer who dedicated much of his work to fostering a Central American union under a single banner, a legacy and dream that is dormant in our current times.

Azarias H. Pallais, renowned priest and poet, was the founder of the so-called Group of the Three Great, a name in honour of three prominent writers: Alfonso Cortés, Salomón de la Selva and himself, all representatives of Nicaraguan culture .