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The big idea of SIFT is to build a new community for 80 poor fishing families who have been dispossessed of their ancestral island homes by the rich.
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The Asese Peninsula near the city of Granada on Lake Nicaragua, Central America is surrounded by 360 small islands. It is an area of natural beauty. Here many poor fishing families have lived for generations living a simple life. They made their homes on the islands and their living from the lake around them. In the last few years the islands have been sold and developed into playground for the rich. They have built their luxury holiday homes there. The poor, because they never legally owned the islands, were thrown off with little or no compensation. SIFT was appalled by the plight of these poor families so bought some land, called Finca El Rayo, on the Asese Peninsula to develop a community where these families can live and carry on their way of life. Having completed the necessary surveys SIFT is now ready to develop the land for the poor. It will be a home for them forever.