Information about our sistered communities
Last week we had some visitors! Sabrina, Nathalie and Taylor, students from Ferris State University went to CRIPDES San Vicente to know about their work and to Guajoyo, where they had the chance to meet with the community board, scholarship recipients and women’s commitee. ¡Tuvimos compañía la semana pasada! Sabrina, Nathalie y Taylor, estudiantes […]
(Versión en español abajo) Last saturday we were happy to visit Teosinte, in the department of Chalatenango, accompanied by staff from CCR. Teosinte is a community where 71 families are currently living. They are sistered with Arlington. This year, from August 17th – 19th, they will be celebrating 30 years of repopulating the area. Mercedes Maurilio […]
A cordial greeting on behalf of the Communal Association of the Heroes of April 11th of Arcatao. We hope this letter finds you well with your families and your daily life. We are grateful to have contact with you and would like to say thanks for the support and collaboration we had with you during our consultation […]
Arlington families travel to ‘sister city’ Teosinte By Beth Soltzberg Arlington fourth-grader Rachel Barglow, fifth-grader Jackson Dray, and seventh-graders Rafi Barglow and Isabella Dray knew they’d have a very different kind of February vacation this year. With family members, they spent the week in Teosinte, the rural El Salvadoran village that has been Arlington’s […]
“They welcomed us with open arms. It made me see how lucky we really are, and gives me a better understanding of the culture of other places.” – Rafi, age 13 “It was amazing how we made friends so quickly. Everything was so different but I loved it. It’ll make me less likely to take […]
From our volunteer Cori Ring-Martinez’s blog, Learning from Mi Pueblo. Check it out for more updates on Chilama and El Salvador! As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been in El Salvador now for two months, and I have spent the majority of that time in La Libertad, the department south […]
November 11th, 2013 www.cispes.org Click here to sign and share the petition today to help us collect 1000 signers by the end Monday, Nov 11 to deliver to the Archbishop! This petition will be presented to the Archbishop in the next week. On September 30, Archbishop Escobar of San Salvador abruptly shut down the Archdiocese’s historic human […]
By Catie Johnston Austin Sister Cities Volunteer in San Vicente Delegations are at the heart of what Sister Cities is all about: they are the incarnation of the solidarity relationships that make things like projects, advocacy, and development possible. In April and May, our sister communities in El Salvador received not one, not two, […]
May 16th , 2012 On May 14th, hundreds of family members and community members from the department of Chalatenango and elsewhere around the country gathered in Las Aradas, near the shores of the Sumpul River to commemorate the massacre of over 600 civilians by the armed forces of El Salvador and Honduras on May 14th, […]
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 […]