Text Box: At a time when corporate led globalization is ravaging the environment, living standards, and human rights, here is a positive, example of people’s globalization.  Islas Hermanas celebrates a unique 25 year connection between Bainbridge Island [near Seattle] and the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua.  Organic, shade grown coffee from cooperatives on Ometepe are roasted on Bainbridge and sold by volunteers to fund clean water projects, schools, and libraries in Nicaragua.  

Ometepe families host Bainbridge high school students each spring, and U.S. third graders create and sell calendars to support school projects on their sister island.  Vivid location footage and spirited Nicaraguan music help tell this story of international friendship affecting thousands of people on both islands.  
   
Broadcast on KCTS PBS/Seattle in April, 2000
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                                               Bainbridge-Ometepe                                   
                                   Sister Islands Association

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Islas Hermanas 

Sister Islands

27 minutes—1999

Text Box: 2000 Winner
CINE Golden Eagle

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