Life in the campo
Fruit Kevin helped pick while in the campo.
Kevin Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua.
Kevin experienced several aspects of life related to living in rural Nicaragua: a lack of access to water and the intense labour r...
Peace Caravan visits Maricopa Jail, Arizona
The Mexican Caravan for Peace currently crossing the US, visited the infamous Maricopa Jail, Arizona, on Saturday. Jael De la Luz Garcia, a participant from the Mexican Churches for Peace, provides an update a...
Mexican Peace Caravan begins to cross USA
The Caravan crosses the border at Tijuana
By Deyssy Jael de la Luz García
This is our first report from Jael, on the Caravan for Peace. Jael is a representative of Churches for Peace , and the Ecumenical Stu...
An old pair of jeans
By Cassie Zonnefeld, MCC Nicaragua. This post corresponds to a previous post that reflected on workers who are employed in free trade zones in Nicaragua.
I just happened to be wearing an old pair of Gap jea...
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 Saturday night and thousands of people were flooding into the str...
Free Trade and Human Rights in Colombia – One Year Later
Rice threshed by hand in rural Colombia. Photo by Rebekah Sears.
Do free trade agreements have an impact on human rights? Canadian and Colombian NGOs are challenging their governments to examine the reality b...
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 Artibonite Valley in Haiti. Each year, these nurseries produ...
Mampuján: Forging a path to peace in Colombia
Community members of Mampuján meet with government representatives to discuss reparations for the massacre and displacement that occurred in their community in 2000.
By Anna Vogt, a Seed program worker with M...
Mexican Mennonite Churches Call for Peace
In May, the 13 churches in the Mexico City area that are part of the Evangelical Anabaptist Mennonite Church Conference (CIEAMM) issued a letter expressing their support of the Movement for Peace with Justice a...
Haiti: United Nations Peace-keepers Held Accountable for Abuses
By Kristen and Wawa Chege, Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti
The current case of UN peacekeeping soldiers, charged with the sexual assault of a young Haitian, raises issues of accountability and effectiveness i...