Roads Change Lives: Google Earth Tour & Video

Nuevas Esperanzas started a new project in January, building an all seasons track to the community of El Ñajo. The goal is to help make life safer and easier during the rainy season, and to open up new opportunities for people living in the community. And I'd like to give you a narrated tour in Google Earth!

Aside from getting a feel for this project specifically, I also think seeing the communities where NE works laid out across the 3D landscape really helps to understand their context and our work in a new way.

I would recommend taking the tour in Google Earth itself if you can, as it gives you the opportunity to explore, zoom in and zoom out, as you like. This is the link to the tour file (kmz).

If you've never taken a tour in Google Earth before, here are directions for opening the file and playing the tour.

And if you haven't worked in Google Earth at all, but would like to you can download the free Google Earth program here.

However, for those of you who don't have time for roaming around in Google Earth at the moment, we also turned the tour this video. Because of the resolution, if you click the link to the video on our YouTube channel and watch it in full screen mode, you'll see the details a lot more clearly.

I hope you enjoy it!