Country Programs – Page 28

Drought, food security and migration in Central America

September 17, 2014

Climate Change, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua, Rural Justice

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

September 11, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua

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...

Action Alert: Conscientious Objector Detained in Colombia

September 9, 2014

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

From Justapaz, partner of MCC Colombia: (Para leer en español) On behalf of Colombian conscientious objector Jhonatan Vargas, student and youth leader of the Central Four Square Church of Barrancabermeja, Santa...

Impunity and forgiveness

August 22, 2014

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

By Anna Vogt, a service worker in MCC Colombia currently working with Justapaz, a Mennonite organization working for justice, peace and non-violent action in Colombia. Originally posted at: thellamadiaries.word...

Understanding the child migrant surge

August 20, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

US/Mexico Border. Wikimedia Commons. By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. Starting in late June, U.S. and international media became...

Oh mother, did you just leave your children?

August 13, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras. Growing up in Honduras, I remember hearing to my mother bring up the idea of migrating to work in the...

Peace on the Hill – Above and Beyond Peace Accords

August 7, 2014

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Charissa Zehr, a Legislative Associate for International Affairs at the MCC U.S. Washington Office, writes on truth and justice in the Colombia Peace Accords process....

Ocos Despierta: a community in the shadow of agribusiness

August 5, 2014

Advocacy, Guatemala, Rural Justice

On the southern coast of Guatemala, BANASA and Grupo HAME have disrupted the lives of campesino Ocos communities in order to grow palm oil and bananas for export. They cut down forests, diverted a major river, ...

ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress and the President to treat migrants from Central American with compassion

July 11, 2014

Action Alerts, Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

Please check out this important action alert from MCC Washington if you live in the United States. Children fleeing violence in Central America must be treated humanely. ...

Uprooted: Migration in Mexico and Central America

July 8, 2014

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

In May, MCC Mexico helped host a group of eight young adults from across Canada. They started on the U.S./Mexico border, then travelled to Mexico City, and finally visited the Mexico/Guatemala border. Rachel Be...

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)