(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As previously reported, the CRIPDES SUR LA LIBERTAD team has requested the support from donors and partner organizations to aid families that did not receive $ 300 from the government. Today they share photos (and video) of the supplies delivery in El Charcón, Chilama and the El Faro community. The government […]
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Last Friday, president Nayib Bukele established a sanitary cordon in La Libertad. People were not allowed to leave their houses not even to purchase food. This was criticized by several people: The lawyer and former Minister of Security, Francisco Bertrand Galindo, wrote that if the siege in La Libertad is true, it is “illegal, […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday, Sister Cities had the opportunity to facilitate a call between Carina Bandhauer’s students at the Western Connectitut State University and young members of Zaragoza Youth Connection (Conexión Juvenil Zaragoza), a group coordinated by Eduardo Jiménez of CRIPDES Sur. In the conversation, the participants were able to share about the situation […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday the board of directors and the women’s group of Chilama organized a delicious lunch to which they invited the team of CORDES, CRIPDES Sur, Sister Cities and Ann Legg, as a representative of our friends in Crystal Lake. Lunch served as a prelude to the delivery of the commemorative plaque […]
(EN ESPAÑOL AQUI) On June 2016, Paulina Dominguez, community leader, shared the history of how the community of El Charcon started, its relationship with CRIPDES and their link with their sistered committee in Binghamton. Some parts have been edited for clarity. The family started with families that were fleeing from the war that […]
Paulina Domínguez, lideresa comunitaria, compartió en junio de 2016 los inicios de la comunidad El Charcón, su relación con CRIPDES y el vínculo con el hermanamiento de Binghamton. Se han editado algunas partes para mayor claridad. La comunidad nació de familias que venían huyendo del conflicto armado que se dio en el año 1980, […]
Every two months, SALVAIDE, The SHARE Foundation and Sister Cities meet with the sistering representatives of the five regions of CRIPDES and some CRIPDES board members. These are the sistering meetings. During these meetings, we talk about the current context, hear reports about the regions and share ideas or proposals. During one of these meetings, […]
(ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL) CRIPDES Sur has done great work promoting women empowerment and autonomy through the Savings and Loans groups for women. This project for rural women started back in 2014 with the financial support of OXFAM. In La Libertad, CRIPDES, in coordination with FECORACEN have joined efforts to form a Women´s Network of […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Thanks to the support of AIETI, the women’s table of CRIPDES has been able to get together once again in the central office after two years. This meeting enabled them to analyze all the work that has been done in the regional offices during all this time, despite the lack of […]
(En español abajo) On November 22nd, the coordinator team of the Scholarship program of CRIPDES Sur La Libertad carried out the last meeting and disbursement of the scholarship for the fifteen scholarship recipients from different communities of the south area of La Libertad. During the meeting, the team took time to make a general evaluation […]