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Women's Cooperatives: Changing Lives and Working Towards Ending Violence
Guatemala, August 25-September 2, 2010
Delegation will include an optional Conference in Guatemala City with Feminist Theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Florenza. Join us in celebrating ten years of traveling to Central America and learning first hand how women are working towards ending domestic violence in their communities. |
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Trip Summary
This year's journey will focus on how Guatemalan women have organized to change their communities through small business development, education and activism. We will travel as a group for eight days visiting both women's education, business and environmental cooperatives, as well as programs working to eliminate domestic violence. During our visits, we will hear first hand stories about the lives of Guatemalan women, the history of the war, social issues and be updated on recent political and social developments. By sharing stories with the women, we will consider ways to go home and continue making a difference.
Trip Objectives
- Receive an overview of the current status of Guatemalan women.
- Increase our understanding of the root causes of oppression for Guatemalan women.
- Gain knowledge about how war, economics and environmental issues interface with injustices towards women in Guatemala.
- Learn about effective women operated programs in Guatemala: What are they doing now and what are their goals for the future?
- Enhance our understanding of how we as North American women can work in solidarity with our sisters in Central America and learn practical skills for doing so.
While we will visit numerous cooperatives, there will be a focus Corazon de Mujer, who produce the beautiful Corazon Scarves and other textiles. We will spend time in their community, Chimaltenango visiting their homes, learning about their weaving, and other traditions. In addition, we will be involved with education activities with their children.
Cost of this trip will be approximately $1500 + airfare. This will cover all in country rooms, meals, and transportation as well as honorariums for each of the groups we visit. This fee will also support a domestic violence workshop in Honduras for a large group of women following this delegation.
To Register For This Trip
For registration information, please email Sandi (sandit@hotmail.com) or call 509-863-7005. Deposit of $100 will be due May 1, 2010.
On August 26 and 27, Feminist biblical scholar and theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza will be leading a conference in Guatemala City. The delegation will join CEDEPCA and other ecumenical partners for this amazing opportunity on our first day in the country. Fiorenza provides models, methods, and metaphors for biblical interpretations and a reconstruction of early Christianity in which women shared the center and were restored to human subjectivity.
The publication of In Memory of Her: A Feminist Reconstruction of Christian Origins in English in 1983, and subsequently in a number of other languages, brought Schüssler Fiorenza's feminist framework for biblical interpretation and historical/theological reconstruction to international attention. |
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