By Cindy Corell | Joining Hands Land, Food and Agribusiness Concerns “Whole cultures of farming, of weaving and knitting, of cooking, preserving and fermenting, of storytelling and music-making, have grown out of the peasant family’s struggle to keep body and mind alive in hard times. What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to… Read more »
March 11, 2024
Peasant movement filled with farmers who fight for rights
By Cindy Corell | Joining Hands Land, Food and Agribusiness Concerns “Whole cultures of farming, of weaving and knitting, of cooking, preserving and fermenting, of storytelling and music-making, have grown out of the peasant family’s struggle to keep body and mind alive in hard times. What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to… Read more »
Cruel land thefts continue 500 years later, taking livelihoods and lives By Cindy Corell | Mission Co-worker Haiti Five rooms of the house had been laid out. Cinder blocks outlined the home; some walls were as high as an adult. Room-by-room, block-by-block, Rita Lucas and her family were building a new house. It had taken… 
Haitians Suffering Under Inhumane Conditions Cindy Corell, Mission Co-worker Haiti, interviews Fabienne Jean, Coordinator of FONDAMA Haiti Cindy Corell is the Mission Co-worker for Haiti who accompanies FONDAMA, the Joining Hands network there. Cindy is currently accompanying FONDAMA from Virginia due to the pandemic and continued insecurity in the country. She interviewed Fabienne Jean, the… 
The Presbyterian Hunger Program’s long-term partner Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) is receiving international attention for their food sovereignty work in Haiti. MPP is a grassroots organization that for decades has mobilized subsistence farmers to advocate for improved agrarian policies in the country while simultaneously training farmers in sustainable agriculture and agroforestry techniques that have… 
PDA, World Mission and global partners work together to help the most vulnerable by Kathy Melvin | Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE — Since the 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Saturday, people have been sleeping outside waiting for possible aftershocks. When tropical storm Grace hit Monday, they had yet another horrible choice to make. “Imagine drenching,… 
Radio is an important tool for development and advocacy Contributions by Agnes Mirembe (ARUWE), Juslene Tyresias (MPP) and Jaff Bamenjo (RELUFA) February 13 marks World Radio Day – a day to celebrate accessible information, learning, and connection. Radio has always played an important role in the development and advocacy work of the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s… 
FONDAMA is committed to the long road to justice By Fabienne Jean | FONDAMA, Joining Hands Haiti In my country, Haiti, hunger, poverty and deprivation destroy the dignity of more than 70% of the population. People are reduced to spending all their lives in one and only quest – the quest for survival. Coming from… 
Listening, respect vital to Joining Hands’ success By Cindy Corell | Mission Co-worker Haiti In 2013, when I began serving in Haiti as a companionship facilitator with our Joining Hands network FONDAMA, I saw so much potential. In the spirit of Joining Hands, our network in Haiti would identify root causes of the country’s massive… 
Haitians strive to regain balance 10 years after massive earthquake By Cindy Corell | Mission Coworker Loving God, we pray in this moment for all who suffered through the earthquake that struck Haiti at 4:53 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Those seconds that counted less than a minute destroyed lives. More than 200,000 people… 
FONDAMA continues fight for a better future By Cindy Corell | Mission Co-worker Haiti One in three people in Haiti have no idea how to find their next meal, a decline from already dire statistics of hunger. That conclusion was reached by researchers for the United Nation’s World Food Programme, studying data in October as…