Below is a letter from community of San Isidro Labrador to the New Jersey committee: Dear Friends, The members of our organization, ADESCOSIL, send you the warmest regards and hope that God has granted you abundant blessings for all the efforts you carry out to support our organizations and students. They are grateful for all […]
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We invite you to listen to this interview with State Senator LaTonya Johnson, Jonathan Solari, from Planned Parenthood and our dear Barbara Mergen Alvarado from the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project. They talk about their experience knowing the center for deportees in El Salvador. CLICK HERE
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(Written by Rachel Dunlap) On Wednesday afternoon Mario and I, accompanied by two representatives from CCR, met with the board of San Isidro next to the community´s school. There, we were greeted by the board who was eager to talk about scholarship division and education inaccessibility, amongst other issues like water privatization. The board […]
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(En español abajo) The last Madison delegation sent the following regards to Miriam and Bernardo from CRIPDES, on their 34th anniversary: Congratulations CRIPDES on your 34th anniversary of your amazing work transforming communities and organizing to build the power of the people. I was so honored to meet with your leaders Bernardo and Miriam to […]
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(Written by Rachel Dunlap) On June 20th, 2018, Sister Cities was invited to speak at a rally on family separation by our kind neighbors, NPR-12, after their guest speaker unexpectedly cancelled. Mario and I obliged. It was my first day in the office, and being notoriously bad at public speaking AND Spanish, I was nervous. […]
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Hi, I’m Rachel. This summer, I have been presented with the great opportunity of volunteering with US-El Salvador Sister Cities. I am in El Salvador to improve my Spanish and am currently enrolled in the Zulma Tobar School for Students Who Can’t Speak Spanish Good. Language aside, I am interested in the importance of solidarity, […]
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“What I learned in all of these places, from dozens of people we talked with, was when Salvadorans leave their communities and families on a perilous, uncertain journey to Mexico or the United States, they do so not just for the chance at a better life, but oftentimes to save their lives and the lives […]
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The Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) and the delegates that visited El Salvador from June 4th to June 11th gave an interview about the reality they witnessed in our country on June 20, 2018 to WORT FM. Jonathan Solari (Planned Parenthood), Marc Rosenthal (MASCP), rep. Christine Taylor and Fabiola Hamdan (Immigration Affairs Specialist) discuss […]
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(En español abajo) I am now ten days back from the recent Guajoyo-Austin delegation trip. And though back into a routine here, I find myself thinking often of the visit and the wonderful people of El Salvador. I am very thankful to Mario Guevara, of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities and Lurvi of CRIPDES. The […]
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(En español abajo) One of the participants in the last Austin delegation wrote the following: I was in El Salvador from June 29-July 5 with a four-person delegation representing the Austin Chapter of a grassroots organization called US El Salvador Sister Cities. We spent three days in San Salvador and three days in […]