Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Latin America and Caribbean

Aug. 2 issue

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  MCC, MEDA helping Haiti’s homeless

  Haitians left homeless by January’s earthquake are getting construction help from a collaborative venture.

  Mennonite Central Committee contributed $1.43 million to rebuild and repair about 775 homes of microfinance clients, most of whom are women. Mennonite Economic Development Associates will administer and monitor the 18-month project, expected to be completed on Nov. 30, 2011.

• Mudslides cover homes in Guatemala

  GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Just a few minutes after Claudia Almanzo, 23, and her two children left their house, a mudslide swept over their tin-roof, wooden house, burying it.

• Chileans rebuild, witness in months after quake

  In the five months since a devastating earthquake, Mennonite churches in Chile have engaged in mutual aid and witness.

July 19 issue

• Foreign aid, local compassion as MCC continue response to Haiti earthquake

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Mennonite Central Committee has approved $3.4 million in projects in the first six months of its five-year response to the Haiti earthquake.

July 12 issue

• Pursuing justice long denied

  I met Jennifer Harbury in 1994 when we were living in a Washington, D.C., religious community. I was doing the background research for Christian Peacemaker Teams’ Washington project between stints with CPT in Haiti, and Harbury was trying to locate her husband, Efrain Bamaca, whom the Guatemalan government had “disappeared.”

• E-mails lead to church plant

  MARANHÃO, Brazil — A routine response to Paulo Roberto Filipe Silva’s e-mail helped create the newest Mennonite church in northeastern Brazil.

July 5 issue

• Once at odds over faith, Ecuador couple lead church

  RIOBAMBA, Ecuador — After 30 years, Beatriz and Daniel Escobar are singing together the songs of faith that once divided them.

June 21 issue

• Paraguayans share gift from MWC

  Presidents of the eight conferences that hosted the 2009 Mennonite World Conference assembly have decided to share equally a $50,000 gift from MWC.

June 14 issue

• Seminary professor sees Haiti’s hope in its people

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Lonnie Yoder will long remember the story told him by a young woman from Haiti who survived the country’s horrific earthquake.

June 7 issue

• Partners celebrate 20 years in Ecuador

  QUITO, Ecuador — Many people from many contexts contributed to the joyful celebration of 20 years of Mennonite involvement in Ecuador.

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