El Salvador – MCC LACA

Gender equality as presupposition: the story of ANADES in El Salvador

May 28, 2019

Advocacy, El Salvador, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Founded among women of rural base communities towards the end of El Salvador’s brutal civil war of the 1980s, the Asociacion Nuevo Amanecer de El Salvador (ANADES) has a long history of accompanying colectivos ...

Our Father of Migrants

November 7, 2017

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

Dan Gonzalez, Director of the Theological Community of Mexico. This prayer was shared during an encounter of Anabaptist leaders in March 2017. The encounter, facilitated by MCC, focused on themes of migration,...

Peacemaking through Connecting Peoples

September 25, 2017

Advocacy, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peace and Non-Violence

Andrew Claassen is the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Nicaragua. As I work with young people from around the world while they navigate life here in Nicaragua, I am primarily focused on things runnin...

Advocacy Encounter: Guatemala 2016

April 11, 2016

Advocacy, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Policy Analyst and Advocacy Support. “A world of peace, a people with dignity, equality and equity with rights. Ancestral communities in resistance, full of hope. Strength lies in a...

Weekly News Roundup Jan 15: Deportations and US Policy

January 15, 2016

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

Migration is a human right. Brittany Vogt U.S. decries rising violence in Central America but will continue deportations The United States is growing increasingly concerned about rising violence in Cen...

New Jerusalem

September 22, 2015

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

Portion of a Sermon led by Krista Loewen and David Epp in the Wildwood Mennonite Church, in Canada. It was inspired on their experience in one of our Learning tours in Guatemala and El Salvador, where they acco...

Placelessness: The Underlying Cause of Central American Youth Migration

March 11, 2015

Advocacy, central america, El Salvador, Guatemala, Migration

Photo: Anna Vogt Tobias Roberts is an MCC service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala Much has been written during the past year regarding the “phenomenon” of Central American youth migrating to the United State...

ANADESA: A community organization promoting education and development in Santiago Atitlan

February 12, 2015

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

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No human being is illegal

December 16, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Migration

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Local Learning Tour about Permaculture

December 10, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Rural Justice

Last November, participants from our partners in San Marcos, Nebaj and El Salvador visited the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, where they learned about the philo...

The Food We Share

Lluvia Esperada: Más Allá del Agua, Una Reflexión Sobre Incendios y Esperanza

5-Part Series: International Day of Peace and Nonviolence (part 5)

5-Part Series: International Day of Peace and Nonviolence (part 4)