Partner Organization – Page 2

Partner Spotlight: The Children’s Program in Palmira

February 5, 2021

Advocacy, Colombia, Partner Organization

These photos were taken February 2020, before social distancing measures were put into place in Colombia. It is a Saturday afternoon and a group of children gather in a community hall located in Palmira...

Letter of Support in Response to Death Threats against JUSTAPAZ

March 19, 2020

Advocacy, Colombia, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence

As a faith-based Anabaptist organization with 100 years of work for relief, development and peace, Mennonite Central Committee supports the work of JUSTAPAZ, an Anabaptist organization that has invested more th...

Dreaming of a Better Life

March 17, 2020

Advocacy, Guatemala, Honduras, Learning Tours, Migration, Partner Organization

When one spends two intense weeks driving around Honduras and Guatemala visiting MCC partners who are working with migrants, it’s inspiring and troubling. It’s inspiring to meet with and hear the stories of peo...

Connection as Sustainability

November 28, 2019

Advocacy, Bolivia, Partner Organization

My coworker told me a story recently of schoolchildren in France who, when asked to draw a picture of chicken, drew pictures of cooked chickens like you would find in your local grocery store or market. Shocked...

Mujeres Valientes

August 7, 2019

Advocacy, Honduras, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence

These five Honduran women are making a large impact in their country. They work with organizations that teach peace workshops, work with victims of domestic violence and minister to troubled youth. I was inspir...

Returned to Honduras

June 19, 2019

Advocacy, central america, Honduras, Migration, Partner Organization

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras ‒ The cellphone vibrates against David’s pant pocket as he rides on the bus, but he does not dare pick it up. It is risky to use his phone because it’s an easy target for thef...

Gender equality as presupposition: the story of ANADES in El Salvador

May 28, 2019

Advocacy, El Salvador, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Founded among women of rural base communities towards the end of El Salvador’s brutal civil war of the 1980s, the Asociacion Nuevo Amanecer de El Salvador (ANADES) has a long history of accompanying colectivos ...

Introducing Konbit Peyizan

May 15, 2019

Advocacy, Haiti, MCC, Partner Organization, Rural Justice

For 37 years, the Haitian staff who operated from MCC’s office in the town of Desarmes have walked for miles every day, up mountains and through rivers in Haiti’s Artibonite Department, to work in remote and vu...

The Caravan Marches On

November 8, 2018

Advocacy, Honduras, Migration, Partner Organization

Sarah Bueter is an MCC service worker in Honduras working with MCC partner ERIC (Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación, y Comunicación – Team for Reflection, Investigation and Communication). It’s early morning...

Victoria Mamani, Mother of Four

October 4, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, Partner Organization, Rural Justice, SEED

In the coming months, MCC LACA is republishing stories from the Life Stories project produced by seeders from the MCC Bolivia program. The Life Stories project is an attempt to show how the reflective peacebuil...

The Food We Share

Las piedras claman – Peace Camp, Akron | 10 al 15 de marzo

Stones Cry Out: Reflecting on Peace Camp, Akron | March 10-15

Earth Day 2025: Cultivating and consolidating peace in Colombia