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From: michael@ucbiris.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954])
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Subject: Travel to Nicaragua & work at your profession/hobby for 2 weeks
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 00:24:21 EST
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	tecNICA is a non-profit organization which sponsors people to visit and
work in Nicaragua in their professions or hobbies for 2 or more weeks.
Volunteers pay their own airfare, and the sponsoring Nicaraguan agencies pay for
the volunteers' room and board during the visit.  I have gone to Nicaragua with
tecNICA and can personally recommend it as a rewarding cross-cultural
experience.  The help which you would provide to Nicaragua now would be
invaluable during this time of crisis.  Knowledge of Spanish is recommended, but
not essential.
	"Originally conceived as a project to assist Nicaraguans with computer
technology, the scope of tecNICA's activity has steadily increased, and now
includes engineering, business management, economic planning, building trades,
and a wide variety of other fields.  The typical delegation getting off the
plane in Managua includes people with skills ranging from machine tool design to
insurance marketing, and the variety is constantly increasing."
	This years' scheduled trips are: March 7-22, April 4-19, May 2-17, May
30 - June 14, June 27 - July 12, August 1-16, September 5-20, October 3-18,
November 7-22 and tentatively December 5-19.
	Here is a sampling of specialists now needed:
- General computer professionals (especially IBM 370, 4331, 34 series, OS,
	databases's, and all micros)
- Computer service/repair technicians
- Computer analyst - billing and data acquisition
- Digital logic teachers
- Microprocessor fundamentals teachers
- Two-way radio engineers and technicians
- Data transmission, switching - engineers, technicians
- Telephone engineers and technicians
- Electronic trouble-shooting engineers
- Electrical engineers (power equipment)
- Industrial electrician
- Medical instrumentation/electronics technicians
- Economists, statisticians
- Diesel and automotive technicians
- Public health workers
- Carpenter/cabinet makers/teachers
- Translators, interpretors

	tecNICA can be contacted at the following places:
- Berkeley (National Office) 110 Brookside Drive, Berkeley, CA  95705;
	(415)654-7768
- San Francisco (415)848-0292
- New York (212)427-0634
- Boston (617)783-1668
- Seattle (206)321-1367
- Chicago (312)524-0198
- Los Angeles (213)970-1495