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March 10, 2015
Sri Lanka: land struggle results in release of lands grabbed and major gains for land rights
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March 10, 2015
Boko Haram Insurgency Spreads Violence and Food Insecurity in Far North Region of Cameroon
By Jaff Napoleon Bamenjo, Coordinator, RELUFA, JH Cameroon The Far North Region of Cameroon has been in the news lately due to attacks on villages by the terrorist group Boko… Read more »
March 10, 2015
Presbytery approves resolution to officially oppose trade moves
By Mark Strothmann, Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy Joining Hands Since 2001, the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy’s Joining Hands Peru Partnership has been working in La Oroya, Peru with our mission partners, Red… Read more »
March 10, 2015
Introduction of GMOs Raises Concerns in Cameroon
By Michelle Danleu and Jaff Bamenjo, RELUFA, Joining Hands Cameroon Harvested cotton by Cameroonian farmer ready to sell. Photo Credit: Jaff Bamenjo There has been a lot of debate… Read more »
March 10, 2015
From Charleston to Haiti, a Long History of Injustice
By Cindy Corell, Mission Co-worker, Joining Hands Haiti Members of a delegation of Presbyterian churches visiting our Joining Hands network in Haiti gather with farmers who have lost their land… Read more »
March 10, 2015
Haitian Farmers Struggle to Protect their Land and Livelihoods
By Cindy Corell, Companionship Facilitator, FONDAMA, JH Haiti One thing farmers in rural Haiti understand is that if you take their land, you take their lives. I can tell you… Read more »
March 9, 2015
A Faithful Response to Climate Change
By Elizabeth Hostetter and Elizabeth Vincent, Mennonite Central Committee Volunteers with the UMAVIDA, Joining Hands Bolivia The Christian faith has a rich heritage of creation care and simple living…. Read more »
February 12, 2015
Damayan Migrant Workers Association protects rights of workers
By Wayne Gnatuk | Self-Development of People Lydia finally escaped. From the Philippines, she had come to the United States as a volunteer with her church’s religious mission. At first,… Read more »
February 11, 2015
Connecting and Equipping: 45 years of helping people through SDOP
By Cynthia E. White Let’s begin this story in 1969. For 10-plus years pressure had been mounting in the nation: the civil rights movement, the long, hot summers, and the… Read more »
January 26, 2015
Fighting back against food chains
Andrew Kang Bartlett, Associate for National Hunger Concerns People who grow, harvest, process, prepare and serve our food are breaking the chains of injustice, not with tempered steel cutters but… Read more »