The last piece left for Mano a Mano’s 5-story office building – adding the roof for the open meeting space on the top floor – is now complete! Each of Mano a Mano’s five counterpart organizations started as a pilot project, “living” in the home of...
10 years ago this week, we were busy moving into our office/warehouse space in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul, and moving out of the home of our Co-Founders Joan and Segundo Velasquez in Mendota Heights, which was our headquarters for our first 19 years of...
On a chilly September morning, Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo staff and 20 leaders from communities that surround Laguna Sulti boarded the municipality’s bus, ready to embark on a trip they had been planning for months. The group included Remberto Gonzales, president of the...
As part of a request for Mano a Mano’s support on new water projects earlier this month, we also received a letter from the Jusku Molle community about the impact the water project we completed in 2012 has had for them. We are always happy to see the sustainable...
Sustainability of Mano a Mano Projects Mano a Mano has completed more than 300 projects, with a number of new projects underway at any given time. Every new project is a direct request from each community, and they are an active participant throughout the...