Country Programs – Page 32

Qué significa ACOMPAÑAR? – Principios del trabajo del CCM Honduras

January 31, 2014

Los principios CCMeros son la mejor herramienta de identificación de la vida compartida por el amor de Dios con nuestro prójimo y la creación. El equipo de CCM Honduras en su compromiso grupal por fortalecer ...

Why soldiers don’t make good cops: Experiments from Mexico to Honduras

January 27, 2014

Advocacy, Country Programs, Honduras, Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence

By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. Today Juan Orlando Hernandez was sworn in as Honduras’ new president. In the country with the highest...

Advocacy from Colombia to Ottawa

January 21, 2014

Advocacy, Colombia, Mining Justice, 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...

Escuelita Zapatista

January 17, 2014

Advocacy, Mexico, Rural Justice

The Zapatistas, a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas went public twenty years ago on the day NAFTA went into effect. After a few violent confrontations early on, the Zapatistas have abstained from u...

Housing and cholera in Haiti, four years later

January 11, 2014

Haiti

Français This Sunday marks four years since Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake that killed over 200,000 people. MCC Haiti has since worked with Haitian partners engaging in relief and development to stab...

What good is growth? Latin America in 2014

January 6, 2014

Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. As we roll into the New Year, some economists and commentators are projecting rosy forecasts for Lati...

Coast to Coast begins!

January 5, 2014

Advocacy, Connecting, Honduras

The Cycling Learning Tour is a combination of a learning tour with a unique opportunity for cyclists to participate in a Honduran bicycling event called "Costa a Costa" (Coast-to-Coast), organized by Trans...

The Challenge of the Manger in Bethlehem

December 23, 2013

Advocacy, Guatemala, Uncategorized

By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala. This article was originally published by the Huffington Post on December 24, 2012. From opulent shopping malls in the Unites States to corners of crumbling adobe houses in rur...

Military, security, and elections in Honduras: a community perspective

December 17, 2013

Honduras, Urban Peacebuilding

By Megan Turley, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator in MCC Honduras. The November elections in Honduras seemed to center around the theme of security, and the two leading political parties, the new party LIBRE...

Petro and the Challenges of Colombian Democracy

December 13, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs

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. This post originally appeared on Anna’s pe...

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)