(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 […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The Austin delegation visited the community of Guajoyo. Jennifer Long, Sheryl Sherman, Miriam Fiorentino and Robert Gibbons had the opportunity to accompany the water committee and see how water springs have or are drying out. They are relying on a secondary pipe to fill the tank that benefits approximately 3200 people […]
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 […]
by Rosalie Miller After several trips to Latin America and always returning home to the same well meaning and generalized inquiries of “how was your trip?” I’ve come to realize that I don’t really like talking about my travel experiences. I realize that I feel like one can never truly convey the stark differences […]
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, […]
We talk a lot here at Sister Cities about solidarity, emphasizing that our sister communities are working “in solidarity” with one another, but what does that mean? And even more important, what does it look like in practice? I arrived here in El Salvador on January 5th to start my six month volunteering adventure with […]