How many slaves are working for you?
By Kevin Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua
Cassie and I rode a bus through one of the many “zona francas” (free trade zones) here in Nicaragua. It was a Satur...
MCC Haiti Plants 5000 trees for National Tree Day
By Joshua Steckley, an MCC service worker in Haiti
Mennonite Central Committee supports 22 local tree nurseries around Desarmes, a small town in the ...
Celebration in Panama: Wounaan granted land certificates
The following email, sent to Mennonite World Conference on June 5, 2012, provides an update, with a note of celebration and thanks.
“Today is an hist...
El Salvador fights to protect its environment
The El Salvadoran government is fighting a legal battle against Pacific Rim Mining, a United States based company. Pacific Rim is suing the country fo...
Working for Peace in Panama
Indigenous people in eastern Panama are watching in alarm and frustration as huge tracts of the tropical forest in which they live are cut down by ill...
More than Zapatistas
A reflection by Miriam Harder, an MCC Service Worker in San Cristobal, Chiapas, originally posted on her blog http://mtharder.wordpress.com/
Mexican...
A message to my fellow gringos…
Charissa Zehr, an MCC service worker in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, shares her thoughts on a book written over 20 years ago, and wonders if anythin...
Conflict of Reasonability – A Guatemalan Indigenous Community vs. an Italian Energy Corporation
Tobias Roberts, MCC service worker in Guatemala, describes the contrasting worldviews that have led to the breakdown in negotiations between a Mayan c...
“Vivir Bien” – The Bolivian concept of “Abundant Life”
By Lynn Longenecker.
Lynn, his wife Laurie, and children, Maria, Nathan and Jesse, recently completed a three-year assignment in Bolivia. In this pos...
Community Evolution – Not Community Development
Bruce, Ziko, Jaime, Hizee, and Zam Friesen-Pankratz, Photo by Luke Roth-Mullet
Bruce Friesen-Pankratz writes about his experience as an MCC service-...