Building a City of Peace
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
“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...
Forced to Flee
Charissa Zehr is a Legislative Associate for International Affairs at the MCC U.S. Washington Office and focuses on Latin America & Asia policy. This piece was originally published on Peace Signs.
Given ...
Volcanoes, Displacement, and Guatemalan History
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...
Moving Together
Come on a journey with us to explore our common humanity with migrants, their families, and helpers, across Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout this photo essay, you will find links that lead back t...
Mediators and Replicas: PPyJ
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
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Moving Beyond “It’s Complicated”: A Mexican History Lesson from Chiapas
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
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
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...