Lessons from the Library
Kimleng Chong is a YAMENer from Cambodia serving in Nicaragua with a project called “Generating Life” or in Spanish “Generando Vida”. The project works to improve the standard of living in a poor neighborhood b...
Dear Child, Yet Within the Womb
Derrick Charles and Rebekah Good Charles are the representatives for MCC Nicaragua. They are from the United States and are expecting the birth of their third child, in Nicaragua. Derrick wrote this song for th...
The Way is Peace
Andrew Claassen in the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Nicaragua.
On July 19, 1979, Nicaraguans awoke to triumph. Having fled the country two days earlier, Anastasio Somoza, the last of a US backed d...
Climate Change and Migration: Nicaragua
Derrick Charles is the co-representative of MCC Nicaragua. This post is part of our ongoing series on migration.
“The guy who lives there is in the United States. The one over there is in the United States...
Advocacy Encounter: Guatemala 2016
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...
The Paris Agreement. And now what?
Stephanie McDonald, senior policy advisor for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Her article was originally posted on the Ottawa Office Notebook.
As I entered the site of the Paris Climate Conference, known as C...
Peace is Possible, but it is a Choice
Kevin and Cassie Zonnefeld are MCCers serving in Nicaragua, as Culture of Peace Educators. In their Conflict Transformation course, they asked students to interview someone who was involved in the revolution of...
Drought, food security and migration in Central America
By Elizabeth Scambler, MCC Latin America's Disaster Management Coordinator, based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Central America is seeing one of the worst droughts in decades. Images in the media are filled with ...
MCC responds to child migrant crisis
In Guatemala, MCC is providing comforters, blankets, hygiene kits and funding to a home run by Missionaries of Saint Charles Scalabrinians, which provides temporary shelter to migrants such as Nanci Adair Gali...
Doing Good
By Marisa Clymer Shank, MCC Nicaragua
I’ve read several articles this past week on “missions” and “development work”. Each one has made me think about how I define what I’m doing in Nicaragua and how others mi...