Country Programs – Page 12

Surrendering control, improving outcomes: Learning an engineering of accompaniment

August 2, 2017

Advocacy, Bolivia, Mining Justice, Rural Justice

Riley Mulhern is the technical WASH advisor for a Bolivian NGO and a Mennonite Central Committee Seed worker addressing issues of contamination and water quality in rural indigenous communities in Oruro, Bolivi...

Restoring Compassion to the (Im)Migration Conversation

July 26, 2017

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Sara Ritchie-Helmuth is the Connecting People Coordinator with MCC Guatemala. The U.S. has historically honored and respected those who have journeyed to new lands—notable figures such as Christopher Columb...

Climate change and food security in Latin America and the Caribbean

July 19, 2017

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change, Haiti, Rural Justice

Darrin Yoder is regional disaster coordinator for Central America and Haiti with MCC. He lives in Managua, Nicaragua. This article was first published in Intersections and is part of our ongoing series on food ...

Waiting for Everything

July 12, 2017

Action Alerts, Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This reflection was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. Going to jail is harrowingly boring. The evening before m...

Encountering Each Other in Bolivia

July 6, 2017

Bolivia, Peace and Non-Violence

Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A colony Mennonite from Bolivia will confess that a typical outsider perception of them is summed up by ov...

Disarmament and the Avocado

July 3, 2017

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This reflection was originally published on Anna's personal blog. The mood in the Bogota plaza was more sombre than excited...

Climate Change, Food Security and Livelihoods: Lessons from Haiti to Colombia

June 28, 2017

Advocacy, Climate Change, Colombia, Haiti

Brendah Ndagire is from Uganda, East Africa. She currently serves as part of the MCC Colombia Seed program, working in Choco. This blog is part of our series on food security and climate change. In February...

Welcome as a Prelude to Peace in Colombia

June 21, 2017

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Alix Lozano is a Colombian Pastor and Theologian and the Co-founder of the Ecumenical Women’s Group of Peace-Builders (GemPaz). This reflection is taken from the Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia worship...

Why technology alone will never provide sanitation for the poor

June 14, 2017

Advocacy, Bolivia, Rural Justice

Riley Mulhern is part of MCC's Seed program in Bolivia. This article was originally published on Engineering for Change. The word “still” carries a subtle indictment. We see it in the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monito...

Three Learnings from Haiti to Mexico

June 7, 2017

Advocacy, Climate Change, Haiti, Mexico, Rural Justice

Alberto Girón Lopez is from Chiapas, Mexico and Lindsey Frye is from Lancaster, PA, USA. Both work with an MCC partner organization, The Institute for Intercultural Studies. This article is part of our ongoing ...

The Food We Share

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)