Country Programs – Page 14

Dinner with a Curandero on Mexico’s Southern Border

March 29, 2017

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration, Rural Justice

Lindsey Frye is a member of Laurel Street Mennonite Church in Lancaster, PA. She is currently living in Chiapas, Mexico with her husband Chris, and daughters Ramona and Ruthie. She works as an Ecumenism Promote...

Reading Jorge Montes and Louise Penny in Villa de Leyva

March 22, 2017

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

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst for Mennonite Central Committee. March 11 was the 17th anniversary of Mampujan’s displacement and the massacre in Las Brisas...

Honouring the Caravan of Central American Mothers

March 15, 2017

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst for Mennonite Central Committee. It is the final evening of the Observation Mission of Human Rights and Migration (MODH). As...

Setting Captives Free: Legal Ministry in Haiti

March 7, 2017

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence

Ted Oswald is an MCC Haiti alumni who served as the Policy Analyst and Advocacy Coordinator along with his wife Katharine, from 2014-2016. From California, he continued his studies in forced migration studies i...

A Letter from the Bordos

March 2, 2017

Advocacy, Climate Change, Honduras

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Ryan Johnson-Evers is a 2016 Bluffton University graduate from Muskego, Wisconsin. He currently works in San Pedro Sula, Honduras with the Mennonite Social Action Commission (CASM) through MCC's SALT program. ...

MCC partner connections brings treatment for Chagas disease

February 20, 2017

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

Photo courtesy of CODESO: Iván Osorto and his wife, Marlenis Espinal, received treatment for Chagas disease. They are pictured here with two of their six children, Maynor Yair Osorto, and Lesley Merary Osorto...

How Change Happens

February 7, 2017

Advocacy, Colombia, Guatemala, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the regional context analyst and advocacy support. When I started working with MCC, I was excited about the possibilities of social justice. Together, as local communities and international ...

Lessons from the Library

January 31, 2017

Nicaragua, Peace and Non-Violence

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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...

Variations on a Vocabulary

January 25, 2017

Advocacy, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Mining Justice, Peace and Non-Violence

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Anna Vogt is the Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This post was originally published on her personal blog. There are still moments, as I pass families and small groups of friends in the park, that I c...

Honduras report: Strong families start with the kids

January 23, 2017

Honduras, Peace and Non-Violence

Pastor Porfirio Zelaya Rubio gestured to the street outside the front door of Iglesia Menonita Sion (Zion Mennonite Church). He spoke in a quiet voice, not wanting to draw the attention of neighborhood children...

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)