October 18, 2011 As the sun struggles to poke through the clouds in El Salvador, CRIPDES continue to evacuate communities and organize aide and temporary shelter for thousands of people from communities affected by the worst tropical storm/hurricane in recent history. Here is the most recent information for the communities CRIPDES works in. La […]
October 18, 2011 On Monday El Salvador declared a State of Calamity. This is the government’s response to the topical storms that continue to hit El Salvador and break records for the amount of recorded rainfall. The amount of rain that fell during Hurricane Mitch in 1998 is only about 68% of the rain that […]
October, 17, 2011 The storm has caused severe flooding in the CRIPDES Regions of San Vicente, La Libertad and Northern San Salvador, as well as in the regions of Achuachapan, La Paz, Sonsonate and Usulutan. Many CRIPDES communities have been affected by the flooding and landslides: La Libertad: According to El Faro La Libertad has […]
El Salvador declared a state of emergency on October 14th, due to flooding from a Tropical Depression and rains that have continued for 12 days without a break. Another Tropical Storm is predicted for October 17th. For a map of some of the damages caused by flooding and landslides see here. At present, 20,000 people […]
Starting October 3rd we are going to be visiting committees and making presentations with community activists Agustin Menjivar and Estela Garcia in Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas. Agustin Menjivar is the president of the Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango and leader of the historic community of Arcatao. Estela Garcia grew up in the […]
By Julie Harrington September 26th, 2011 When I sit down and try to describe my travel experience with the Sister City Organization I’m not certain where to begin. As an educator who lives and teaches in Arlington, I was aware of and a distant supporter of the Arlington-Teosinte Sister City relationship through my […]
Why is it so beneficial to become a sustainer? Becoming a sustainer makes giving easier for both you and the Sister Cities network. It lowers Sister Cities administration costs by receiving donations automatically, and provides a reliable stream of contributions throughout the year. How Does the Sustainer Program Work? The sustainer program is a […]
Learning From 25 Years of Solidarity, Struggle, & Tortilla-Making in El Salvador Written by Alexandra Early & Jan Morrill for Social Policy Magazine. Full article at www.socialpolicy.org. This summer, Sister Cities celebrates twenty-five years of cross-border solidarity with the campesinos of El Salvador. Among other things, this milestone means that North Americans visitors have […]
When Power in Community Alliance (PICA) of Bangor, Maine raised $4,133 by selling donated gold for the anti-mining movement they assumed the money would go to lobbying or mobilizing work done by the National Roundtable against Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa, in Spanish). However, when the news came back that the money had been […]
Diario Digital Contrapunto Reports: Military Leaders of the Civil War in Jail August 8th, 2011 By Hugo Sanchez / Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador woke this morning shocked after learning that the military leaders who led the army for much of the civil war (1980-1992), are imprisoned in a military facility which before and […]