What is
Finca Esperanza Verde?
FEV has received international recognition as a model of poverty alleviation through sustainable tourism. This economic development project provides jobs and much-needed income to the people of San Ramón. FEV also offers tourists a cultural immersion experience, connections with the people of San Ramón, and an opportunity to support the community through an economic model that is self-sustaining and reduces paternalism.
DURHAM – Finca Esperanza Verde (Green Hope Farm) Eco-lodge and Nature Preserve, created out of an abandoned coffee farm in the mountains of central Nicaragua by a Durham, North Carolina non-profit organization and their Nicarguan partners, has won a $20,000 Sustainable Tourism Award for Conservation from Smithsonian magazine and Travelers Conservation Foundation in a worldwide [...]