During a 1986 visit to a farming cooperative in the mountains near Jinotega, I met with a small group of Nicaraguan peasant farmers (campesinos). As part of the Agrarian Reform, these campesinos had been given small plots of land to farm and had decided to join together and create a cooperative — sharing the work, the costs, and, as they proudly displayed for us –– a greater harvest than any of them could have produced alone: carrots as big as forearms, squash and onions and corn. Most of them had worked their whole lives on someone else’s land for someone else’s benefit, barely able to feed their families, with little or no hope of escaping the desperate poverty that defines the lives of most of Nicaragua’s citizens. 'We always hoped for land of our own,' one of the campesinos told us, 'but it was hope with no legs.' 'Now,' he continued, 'our hope has the strong legs of justice.' That story and his words have lived inside me for the past twenty years. That is what I want JustHope to be about: 'Giving hope the strong legs of justice.'