Haitian leaders for organizing the lands, the key for the reconstruction

Fe y Alegría Haití’s monitoring job as well as the one from Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados (JRS) and Entreculturas’ local partners, is being the core in all the work being done in the displacement camps in Puerto Principe. For this reason, it is essential the training of communal leaders who can coordinate the jobs. “It’s a question of helping in the creation of different groups to carry out the jobs that guarantee the life conditions in the 5 camps we are present: litter collection, drainage, food stock and distribution, maintenance, security and relation with official organizations”. Ana Cristina Garcia, Haiti’s coordinator in Entreculturas just arrived in Spain, explains. “This monitoring aims to help in the creation of leadership that may allow a better organization in the daily life at camps”, she adds. Read+

Javier Girado SJ, threatened with death in Colombia

Since last April, Javier Giraldo, Jesuit and researcher in the Colombian Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP), is being threatened to kill through grafittis showed up in different places in Bogota. Giraldo has denounced more than 200 crimes and murders committed by the National Army, paramilitaries and the guerrilla in San José de Apartadó Peace Community. Read+