Country Programs – Page 8

Si Esta Mesa Hablara (If This Table Spoke)

September 28, 2018

Advocacy, Honduras, Peace and Non-Violence

During her term as an MCC service worker, Kholiwe Vundla worked as a paralegal assistant with the Deborah Program in Siguatepeque, Honduras. “Si esta mesa hablara, a saber la cantidad de historias que podrí...

Threads

September 19, 2018

Advocacy, Canada, Mexico, Migration, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the director of the MCC Canada advocacy office in Ottawa. “It is not futile to sing the pain and beauty of having been born in America.” –Eduardo Galeano Before I moved to Latin Americ...

Building a City of Peace

August 1, 2018

Advocacy, Haiti, Migration, Peace and Non-Violence

Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. The above photo is of Alex Pierre. Of the dozen or so people sitting talking together in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood called T...

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

July 20, 2018

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

“In this biblical spirit and in solidarity with peacebuilders in Colombia, we write to let the public know that on Saturday, July 14, 2018, we learned of a communiqué in which an illegal armed group, self-ident...

Volcanoes, Displacement, and Guatemalan History

June 26, 2018

Advocacy, Guatemala, Migration

Jack Lesniewski is the co-representative for MCC Guatemala-El Salvador. It’s been almost three weeks since Volcan del Fuego erupted in Guatemala. It was supposed to be a lazy Sunday afternoon and returning...

Education from Colombia to Nicaragua

June 7, 2018

Advocacy, Nicaragua, Peace and Non-Violence

Jenny Silva is an educator with MCC Nicaragua partner, Accion Medica Cristiana. Jenny works in violence and bullying prevention with schools and communities in Bluefields, on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Sh...

Mediators and Replicas: PPyJ

May 30, 2018

Advocacy, Honduras, Peace and Non-Violence

Emily Bowman is the former Connecting Peoples Coordinator in Honduras. In the photo, children practice a relaxation and breathing technique for de-stressing, led by Damaris Guaza Sandoval and the mediators A...

Moving Beyond “It’s Complicated”: A Mexican History Lesson from Chiapas

May 23, 2018

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Quinn Brenneke is a SALTer working with MCC Mexico partner Voces Mesoamericanas. This post was originally published on Quinn's newsletter. The simple answer I often give to many of the questions I get about...

Even planting trees was a political act: MCC in military-governed Haiti, 1987 to 1994

May 9, 2018

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

Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. You can find more stories about MCC Haiti's 60 years of work on the MCC Haiti blog. Lesreste Sidort started working for MCC in 1...

Peace Buttons and Education

May 2, 2018

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. As we boarded the bus, José David Valencia handed us all “gestores de paz” buttons to pin to our shirts. We were on our wa...

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)

Si Esta Mesa Hablara (If This Table Spoke)

Threads

Building a City of Peace

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

Volcanoes, Displacement, and Guatemalan History

Education from Colombia to Nicaragua

Mediators and Replicas: PPyJ

Moving Beyond “It’s Complicated”: A Mexican History Lesson from Chiapas

Even planting trees was a political act: MCC in military-governed Haiti, 1987 to 1994

Peace Buttons and Education

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration