Enthusiasm and hope: The Weenhayek confront change in the Bolivian Chaco


Weenhayek community leader Emeterio Torres tells us how, just 10 years ago, to visit a government office or participate in meetings involved a one day bicycle ride on dusty unpaved paths across dense Chaco forest.  Punctures were a regular occurrence and repair kits an essential travel companion.

Today that has all changed. 
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"Now we have a safe place in the market where we can play, learn, and also teach others."
These are the words of Clara, an 11-year-old girl who attends—and is a spokesperson for--the after-school club at the Roberto Huembes market in Managua, Nicaragua
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CWS Latin America launches Interactive Map of the South American Chaco region

Learn more about where mass deforestation is taking place, improvements in indigenous land claims, latest threats to community leaders and results of CWS-supported food security programs in this little known region of the world.

CWS Regional Latin America and Caribbean office has created an Interactive Map of the South American Chaco for colleagues, churches and organizations in the United States and around the world interested in learning more about this little known region. 

http://www.cwslac.org/map/

 

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Promoting Health in Santa Teresa, Carazo, Nicaragua

With a public celebration in Santa Teresa, 19 new health promoters, men and women, were graduated to serve the social needs in this region. Such a meaningful event has been also organized with the support of the Interchurch Center of Theological and Social Studies CIEETS, in coordination with the 10 communities mainly involved and the Municipality of Santa Teresa.

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and the American Council for Voluntary International Action (InterAction).

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Photos left to right:
Doug Smith, Projeto Meninos e Meninas de Rúa, Paul Jeffrey, Rick Reinhard, Martha Farmelo


Neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world.

Click here for a CROP Hunger Walk near me

  
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The CWS staff in Latin America and the Caribbean invites you to come together with us in prayer.
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