Monday Meetings

Nicaragua-2012 Country Directors

 Abraham Mooney






At age 27 Abraham had an early midlife crisis and left his career as a mechanical engineer in the paper industry for world travel and Peace Corps service in Bolivia. As the first volunteer in his site working in Basic Sanitation, his projects included a prototype ferrocement water tank, sanitary latrines, recycling, and composting. Seeking a career in public service, Abraham returned to graduate school to study urban planning and ecological engineering.  Successfully defending his master’s thesis in fall 2011, he found that his research on urbanization and human ecology would be a lifelong passion.  Going forward, Abraham is very excited to serve in HELP International and l looks forward to promising future opportunities incorporating ecological engineering with community-based development projects.  He believes that the notion of ‘survival of the fittest’ as the rule of the jungle is fading, as the world begins to understand that cooperation is the true mechanism of nature.  Abraham embraces the changing world with open arms.

Megan Patterson

Megan was born and raised in a small suburb outside of Northeast Philadelphia, called Hatboro. She moved to Washington, DC to study International Relations at American University. She graduated in December 2011 with a Bachelors Degree in IR, and specializations in Latin America, International Communications, and Spanish. During her time at American University, she did an Alternative Break in Guatemala, during which she experienced Latin American culture for the first time. The next year she spent a semester in Santiago, Chile. Some of her favorite moments were when she sandboarded in the Atacama Desert, learned to tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and went to Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and had the best tuna empanadas of her life. Her plans for the future include gaining a Masters Degree in International Communication, traveling more throughout Latin America, and getting a puppy.

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