Country Programs – Page 30

Challenges of an indigenous university in a westernized education system

March 31, 2014

By Nancy Sabas¨Are you the same ones that came to kill my people?¨ asked hesitantly an Ixil community Elder to a group of 10 curious students soon-to-become teachers from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada....

¡Adelante! Peace with Justice for ALL Colombians

March 29, 2014

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

By Rebekah Sears, Policy Educator and Advocacy Worker for MCC Colombia. It is that time of year again: Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia (DOPA). From April 4-7 churches, organizations, communities and ind...

Funky Friday! Comida Catracha

March 28, 2014

Funky Friday, Honduras, Just for fun!

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Para divertirnos un poco este viernes, queremos celebrar la comida hondureña: ¿Cuál es su comida favorita de Honduras? Deje un comentario aquí! Amamos la comida catracha! (Especialmente las baleadas.) <3...

Costa a Costa: Transformemos Honduras

March 26, 2014

Advocacy, Honduras, Partner Organization

Click here for English. Cada año la organización Transformemos Honduras tiene un evento que se llama Costa a Costa, donde alrededor de 100 ciclistas viajan más de 700kms de la Ceiba hasta San Lorenzo, Valle por...

Violence and a bag of chips

March 25, 2014

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

By Elizabeth Scambler, MCC Disaster Management Coordinator, Mesoamerica & Caribbean Since before I moved to Honduras almost 2 years ago, I had heard about conflicts in the Bajo Aguan, a fertile region in t...

Violence and a bag of chips

March 20, 2014

Advocacy, Honduras

(versión en español abajo, haga click aquí) Violence and a bag of chips written by Elizabeth Scambler, MCC Disaster Management Coordinator, Mesoamerica & Caribbean Since before I moved to Honduras almost 2...

Constructing peace across a violent border

March 18, 2014

Mexico, Migration

Photo credit: Chris Hershberger-Esh By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. Fifty tired-looking migrants, mostly men, formed a ci...

Demanding justice in Haiti’s cholera epidemic

March 10, 2014

Haiti

Wiltord, a man suffering from cholera because of Haiti's epidemic. Photo by Wawa Chege. By Vanessa Hershberger, Program Associate at the MCC United Nations office in New York, with input from Wawa and...

Another letter from a Colombia jail

March 4, 2014

Colombia, Rural Justice

Español By Anna Vogt, who lived in Mampuján, Colombia for two years with MCC’s Seed program. This summer, she moved to Bogotá as an MCC service worker with Justapaz, a Mennonite organization working for just...

Civil society statement on the eviction of families in Canaan, Haiti

February 28, 2014

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence

This statement was released by The Haitian Collective for the Defense of the Right to Housing, who works closely with MCC Haiti. Illegal, often violent evictions continue against IDP communities in Haiti. In De...

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)

Challenges of an indigenous university in a westernized education system

¡Adelante! Peace with Justice for ALL Colombians

Funky Friday! Comida Catracha

Costa a Costa: Transformemos Honduras

Violence and a bag of chips

Violence and a bag of chips

Constructing peace across a violent border

Demanding justice in Haiti’s cholera epidemic

Another letter from a Colombia jail

Civil society statement on the eviction of families in Canaan, Haiti

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration