2022 is coming to an end and it is time to deliver our annual newsletter; reported for transparency and because we are excited to share with you what we have achieved.
Looking back on 2022
Tag: solidarity
A 2022 Retrospective
The VOICES FAMILY wishes everyone a holiday season filled with warmth, love and time well spent with family and friends. To close the year, we will dedicate its final days to remembering and reflecting on events and accomplishments.
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Third Quarter Report of 2022
From education to the environment to the empowerment of girls and youth, VOICES continues to work actively for the just development of El Salvador’s most marginalized.
Read about this and more in our latest quarterly report!
Desde la educación, al MedioAmbiente hasta al empoderamiento de las niñas y jovenes, VOCES sigue trabajando activamente por el desarrollo justo de los más marginados de El Salvador.
Lea sobre esto y más, en nuestro último informe trimestral!
Second Quarter Report of 2022
From education to the environment to the empowerment of girls and youth, VOICES continues to work actively for the just development of El Salvador’s most marginalized peoples.
Read about this and more in our latest quarterly report!
Desde la educación, al MedioAmbiente hasta al empoderamiento de las niñas y jovenes, VOICES sigue trabajando activamente por el desarrollo justo de los pueblos más marginados de El Salvador.
Lea sobre esto y más, en nuestro último informe trimestral!
First Quarter Report of 2022
This first quarter of 2022 Voices on the Border been very busy, we’ve helped to protected schools, students and teachers, bring youth initiatives together, expand our accompaniment, train teachers, support victims of violence in their healing process and even hosted a successful virtual Solidarity Festival.
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Este primer trimestre de 2022 Voces en la Frontera ha estado muy ocupado, hemos ayudado a proteger escuelas, a reunir iniciativas juveniles, a ampliar nuestro acompañamiento, a formar a profesores, a apoyar a las víctimas de la violencia en su proceso de curación e incluso a organizar un exitoso Festival Solidario virtual.
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YOU’RE INVITED
To our 3rd Annual Solidarity Concert, a fundraiser for Women’s Rights in El Salvador.
More info @ www.eventbrite.com/VOTBSolidarity2022
2021 Work Report
In 2021, despite an ongoing pandemic, VOICES worked on numerous projects in the areas of Education, Environment, Food Sovereignty, Leadership, and Self-management.
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Mejores Escuelas, Mejores Futuros
Porque creemos que la educación es un elemento clave para acabar con la pobreza, nos esforzamos por mejorar la calidad no sólo de las competencias de los profesores y el equipamiento, sino también por mejorar las escuelas para que los niños quieran seguir estudiando.
Vea el siguiente vídeo y conocer cómo un poco hace mucho por las comunidades más vulnerables y olvidadas.
Gracias al apoyo del Grupo Santuario de Baja de Sur, de Palo Alto, California, por financiar este proyecto.
Better Schools, Brighter Futures
Because we believe that education is a key element in ending poverty, we strive to improve the quality not only of teachers’ skills and equipment, but also to improve infrastructure so that children will want to stay in school.
Watch this video and learn how a little goes a long way for the most vulnerable and neglected communities.
Thank you to the support of the South Bay Sanctuary Covenant Group of Palo Alto, California for funding this project.
La Iglesia Embellecerá a Cuatro Hombres, Asesinados por “Odio a la Fe” Durante la Guerra Civil de El Salvador
Este 22 de enero de 2022 se llevará a cabo la ceremonia de beatificación del Padre Rutilio Grande y sus compañeros Nelson Rutilio Lemus y Manuel Solórzano y tambien el Padre Cosme Spessotto. Los cuatro hombres fueron asesinados por elementos de las fuerzas armadas, al comienzo de la guerra civil.
El Padre Grande fue un sacerdote jesuita salvadoreño que abogaba por la justicia y defendía los derechos humanos, además de una figura destacada en formación prístina en El Salvador.
El Padre Spessotto, fue un sacerdote franciscano italiano que en el lapso de 26 años en San Juan Nonualco, La Paz, construyó una iglesia y fundó una escuela parroquial, que ha sido atendido por más de mil niños.
La muerte del Padre Grande conmovió profundamente al Oscar Romero, el entonces arzobispo de San Salvador y lo llevó a comenzar hablar con más fuerza sobre la represión y la violencia que el pueblo salvadoreño estaba sufriendo.
El evento especial tendrá lugar en Gran San Salvador.
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The church will Beatify Four Men, Murdered for “Hatred of the Faith” During El Salvador’s Civil War
This January 22, 2022, the beatification ceremony of Father Rutilio Grande and his companions Nelson Rutilio Lemus and Manuel Solórzano and also Father Cosme Spessotto will take place. The four men were assassinated by elements of the armed forces, at the beginning of the civil war.
Father Grande was a Salvadoran Jesuit priest who advocated for justice and defended human rights, as well as a leading figure in pristine formation in El Salvador.
The death of Padre Grande deeply moved Oscar Romero, the then Archbishop of San Salvador and led him to begin speaking more strongly about the repression and violence that the Salvadoran people were suffering.
The special event will take place in Gran San Salvador.
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Returning to our Solidarity Planning
The Voices’ Annual Board of Directors meeting is a space to evaluate our work and strategize what’s to come. It is also a wonderful occasion for us as staff to get to know our board members on a deeper level. After more than a year of exclusively connecting via everyone’s favorite video conferencing program, it was decided that the time had come to meet face to face.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit down with Sheryl, an ESL teacher at Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School in D.C., who for the past 23 years has been unflaggingly helping adult immigrants – many of them Salvadorans- to reach their potential here in the U.S.
I asked her about her decision to join the board, and she reminisced on her first delegation to El Salvador with VOICES back in 2017:
By that point, I already had so much affinity for my Salvadoran students and the Salvadoran people, and I had also been actively working to raise my own awareness around racism, classism, and immigration.
Then I went on a Voices’ delegation, which opened my eyes and helped to confront the Salvadoran narrative I had long held in my mind. You see, up until then, I had mainly only heard the testimonies of those who fled or left El Salvador for whatever reason, not of those who stayed behind.
I remember being so impacted by the young community leaders, who were fully committed to staying and vigorously working to improve societal conditions so that future generations don’t feel the need to migrate.
Even under “normal” circumstances, that type of dedication would’ve been admirable, but at that time, things were far from normal on the contrary things were downright toilsome. But Voices as an organization never faltered in their support.
I’m honored to be on the Board and in a position to learn more and offer more support to our students at Carlos Rosario.”
Voices on the Border 