VOLUNTEER

LOBBY

SPEAK OUT

VISIT THE BORDER

VISIT LATIN AMERICA

 

VOLUNTEER

Fair Trade

Sell items from our sister communities

Promote fair trade coffee, etc. at all events and places possible

Organize process for the purchase of fair trade apparel in schools

Support National Farm Worker Ministry and
Coalition of Immokalee Workers action campaigns.

Office Work

Help with mailings

Help with database management

Prepare annual financial audit/report

Monitor organizational webpages for information and alerts

Work on quarterly Newsletter: write, edit, graphics, photos, layout. etc.

 

LOBBY

Legislative Work

Monitor legislation at National, State and Local levels

  Library of Congress Legislative Information • Thomas.loc.gov

  State of Missouri • www.state.mo.us

  State of Illinois • www.state.il.gov

  About St. Louis • stlouis.about.com/od/governmentcities

Prepare alerts for IFCLA members

Make appointments and visit legislators

 

SPEAK OUT

Local speakers (as needed)

Reporting: People who have traveled to Latin America

Raising Consciousness: People who have studied issues

Sharing Stories: People who are from Latin America

Speaking Tours (occasional)

NISGUA: Guatemala Network (usually in November)

NicaNet: Nicaraguan Network

Compas de Nicaragua

SHARE: Salvadoran Foundation

IFCO: Pastors for Peace (usually in the summer)

Beehive Collective

CSN: Colombia Support Network

HSN: Honduras Solidarity Network

VISIT THE BORDER

For border visits:

Annunciation House www.annunciationhouse.org/bae.html

Borderlinks www.borderlinks.org/bl/index.htm

Frontera de Cristo www.fronteradecristo.org

Humane Borders www.humaneborders.org

Coalicion de Derechos Humano www.derechoshumanosaz.net

No More Deaths  www.nomoredeaths.org

Border Angels www.borderangels.org

Presente: Inside the migrant trail walk • To view this video walking the border trail, click 'View the video (mp4)'
panleft.org/description.php?vid_id=29

VISIT LATIN AMERICA

IFCLA Delegations

Spring Break: High School group to Guarjila, El Salvador

IFCLA is happy to help you prepare yourself or your group for travel to Latin America.

IFCLA organizes delegations to the US/Mexico border with No Más Muertes (Tucson, AZ) during the St Louis area university spring break week (generally the second week of March).

Other Organizations

IPM - International Partners in Mission • 
www.ipm-connections.org
International Partners in Mission (IPM) works across borders of faith and culture on behalf of children, women, and youth to create partnerships.

Maryknoll • laymissioners.maryknoll.org
Our Friends Across Borders program strives to educate participants living in the U.S. about the communities we serve in mission. By joining us on a short mission awareness immersion trip to one of our ministries, participants deepen and enrich their understanding of mission and build friendships across borders. They experience, first-hand, the culture and lives of the communities in which Maryknoll Lay Missioners serve. We schedule trips to our ministry communities in places like Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, El Salvador, Tanzania, and the US - Mexico border at El Paso, TX - Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. For more information, please email Friends Across Borders, call 414-461-1810, or download a PDF of our general brochure.

Global Exchange • www.globalexchange.org/tours
The idea that travel can be educational, fun, and positively influence international affairs motivated the first Global Exchange Reality Tours in 1989. Our tours provide individuals the opportunity to understand issues beyond what is communicated by the mass media and gain a new vantage point from which to view and affect US foreign policy. Travelers are linked with activists and organizations from around the globe who are working toward positive change. We also hope to prompt participants to examine related issues in their own communities. www.globalexchange.org/tours/

SHARE foundation • www.share-elsalvador.org
Delegations give you a chance to experience the reality of life in El Salvador. Delegates learn about the history of El Salvador and the road that has lead to today's economic situation. In addition, delegates become familiar with SHARE's partner organizations and their work, which provide a window to the popular resistance of the poor in El Salvador. With this background, delegations visit countryside communities to meet people and to enjoy the warmth of Salvadoran hospitality. Each delegation also takes a little time for relaxation, like a trip to the beach or time spent in the natural surroundings of this beautiful country. This is a once in a lifetime chance to come and visit El Salvador, "El Rincon Magico" or the "Magical Corner" of Central America. It is an unforgettable and life-changing experience!

CRISPAZ • www.crispaz.org
El Salvador Encounter is a faith-based delegation experience where participants learn from the Salvadoran people about their lives, histories and hopes for the future. Encounters are 7 to 10 days long and offer the opportunity to explore a different reality while focusing on a theme chosen by the group. Participants learn directly from the Salvadorans about issues such as the impact of war, neo-liberal economics, U.S. foreign policy and a tradition of liberating faith. The focus of the El Salvador Encounter program is not only to develop a greater knowledge of El Salvador as a whole, but also to develop an understanding of the people and to build relationships. The El Salvador Encounter program is sponsored by CRISPAZ. We have been leading tours and seminars to El Salvador since 1985. Our in-country staff can organize a delegation to meet the needs and interests of your group.

Witness for Peace • www.witnessforpeace.org
Witness for Peace is a politically independent, grassroots organization. We are people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Our mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. We stand with people who seek justice. Witness for Peace travels to Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Nicaragua

Peace Brigades International • www.peacebrigades.org
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts. PBI volunteers and supporters around the world demonstrate that individuals working together can act boldly as peacekeepers even when governments cannot or will not. When invited, we send teams of volunteers into areas of repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations and others threatened by political violence. Perpetrators of human rights abuses usually do not want the world to witness their actions. The presence of volunteers backed by a support network helps to deter violence. We create space for local activists to work for social justice and human rights.Currently, we have volunteers protecting human rights activists in Colombia, Guatemala , Indonesia and Mexico, as well as a project starting in Nepal and a joint project with other organizations in Chiapas, Mexico.

Christian Peacemaker Teams • www.cpt.org
Christian Peacemaker Teams is a program of Brethren, Quaker and Mennonite Churches (USA and Canada). The Baptist Peace Fellowship, Every Church a Peace Church, On Earth Peace and The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship are also sponsors of CPT. Christians from other bodies in the ecumenical Christian community are particIpants in the 40 member full time Christian Peacemaker Corps and the part time 125 member Reserve Corps.

Followship of Reconciliation •forusa.org
Since the 1920s, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has sent delegations of peacemakers to regions of the world in conflict and to nations regarded as U.S. enemies. This people-to-people outreach, a form of civilian diplomacy, has taken Americans to such places as Vietnam, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, Nicaragua, Israel/Palestine, and the Philippines.  FOR now regularly sends peace delegations to the Middle East and Colombia.

Rights Action •
www.rightsaction.org/ra-content/travel-in-a-delegation
With tax-charitable status in the USA and Canada – funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.   
Vision: www.rightsaction.org/who-we-are/vision