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Join the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Honduras! April 2010
Submitted by rick on 16 January 2010 - 7:48pmThe
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)/Pastors for
Peace is organizing an historic solidarity and humanitarian aid caravan
to Honduras. It will be in support of communities and grassroots
organizations that are addressing issues of health and poverty.
En
route to delivering urgently needed material aid, the caravan will
visit cities throughout the US and Canada to inform about projects of
special need as well encourage a change in our foreign policy toward
Honduras. The aid we carry will include educational and medical
supplies.
The
caravan will be a demonstration of a people-to-people foreign policy in
support of self-determination and sustainable development. This caravan
serves as an example to our own government, which historically has
supported policies that actively suppress grassroots movements for
progressive social change in the region especially after the 6/28/09
military coup in Honduras. We believe that with this act of solidarity
we can encourage the Obama administration to revise and change our
foreign policy towards the people of Central America into one of mutual
respect and cooperation on equal terms.
We will spend 7 days in Honduras in fellowship with our poor, indigenous and afro-descendant brothers and sisters. The caravan will visit different communities and social projects such as the first Garifuna People’s Hospital led by Dr. Luther Castillo. Throughout these exchanges we will meet and learn from them at different levels about the problems caused by U.S. foreign
policy and the ways they have creatively responded with innovative
projects which make health, culture, decent jobs, food and other basic
human rights more accessible to the people.
IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan schedule
April 5 – 13 Caravan routes - educational events and aid collections in the US and Canada.
April 14 – 15 Orientation
April 16 – 20 Border crossing and travel to Central America
April 21 – 27 Educational and cultural program in Honduras
JOIN US!
For more information on how to apply or support the Caravan to Honduras: IFCO/Pastors for Peace 212.926.5757 P4P@igc.org
