Cantera hosts and wins national Karate tournament

On Sunday, August 18^th, Cantera's Karate School, Kay-Kempo, hosted the second annual Karate-do National Championship with the theme, “We're youth, we're peace.”Using the basketball court of a local school, 7 Karate schools from all over Nicaragua participated, showing their skills to a crowd of about 500 people. With many MOJUV members helping to run the event, familes and friends came to watch Karate practiced by all ages, with both male and female categories for children, youth, teens and adults.

The event lasted the entire day with participants from ages 4 to 20 competing in different sparring and technique competitions. In the end, Kay-Kempo Cantera Ciudad Sandino won the tournament in almost all age brackets for both males and females. We are very proud of our Karate school here at Cantera, for their hard work and sportsmanship. 

MOJUV organizes 7th Annual HIV/AIDS Forum

This past month Ciudad Sandino Cantera's youth movement, MOJUV, organized their 7^th Annual Forum on HIV/AIDS in the municipality. The event was held at the mayor's office in Ciudad Sandino with the participation of 10 other youth and/or health organizations in the community as well as students from different schools around the area. The event was full of different speakers, videos, group discussions, and private HIV testing.

The event is a big deal for MOJUV because it is an opportunity to work with many different organizations and institutions within Ciudad Sandino to organize on a municipal level. The event is also important because HIV/AIDS is a growing situation not only in the community but specifically amongst the youth populations here. MOJUV works to organize themselves around important causes that affect them as youth and their community and be agents of change in their reality.