155 W. 72 Street, #402
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 917-776-4246
Fax: 212-531-1921
 info@tipitapa.org

In 1987, an Upper West Side, New York City-based sub-committee of the Committee for Non-Intervention in Central America wrote to the Nicaraguan government requesting to be paired with a Nicaraguan city. A letter was received assigning this small group of New Yorkers to the village of Tipitapa with a population in excess of 100,000.

A group of New York City residents (based on the Upper West Side) visited Tipitapa in May 1987. Out of that first people-to-people exchange grew the Municipal Coordinating Council for Sister Cities twinned with Tipitapa (the Spanish acronym is COMPALCIHT). Now recognized as a non-governmental organization, COMPALCIHT is our official partner organization. Originally known as the Upper West Side-Tipitapa Sister City project, we have evolved into a registered 501(c)3 organization known as Dos Pueblos: New York-Tipitapa Sister City Project. This change recognizes that we have evolved into a city-wide organization and that our purposes reflects the dual meaning of “two peoples” and “two villages” working to support a global future based on human rights, justice, and peace.

We are now an elected board of  people with a growing advisory board of people with special knowledge and skills; we meet regularly; we have one full-time Executive Director and we believe we can make a difference by working collaboratively with our Tipitapa partners.