Donations granted: 2013

OFRANEH (Fraternal Black Honduran Org.) Garifuna Community – Radio repairs: 10096,60 Honduran Lempira/ GB£335.00

Train Fares for Dina Meza Honduran Journalist to attend ENCA meetings (reported in ENCA 58): GB£160.00

Train Fare for Norvis Vasques (of Miraflor, ENCA partner in Nicaragua) to attend ENCA meeting: GB£26.00

MUFRAS Francisco Sanchez United Movement-32, El Salvador – publicity materials for campaigns against mining: US$300/ GB£198.00

Consejo de Mujeres de Occidente (CMO), Nicaragua – cooking stove project II: US$1005/ GB£660.00

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Newsletter 59: October 2013

In this edition Amy Haworth Johns explores the real cost of the Trans-Atlantic Canal and we hear more from James Watson on his flightless adventure visiting ENCA’s projects across Central America. Our friends at PROAH give an overview of the situation fced by opponents of the Agua Zarca Dam in Honduras and Doug Specht brings us more Mining News.

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A Short Goodbye and Thank You

I hope that my blog, or at least some parts of it, has been interesting to those who’ve read it! Travelling as a sponsored journey for ENCA – with an overall purpose of avoiding planes and with this blog to record the most interesting parts – has for me made the whole year a lot more interesting, and given it a sense of purpose.

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Final Photo Album – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and HOME!

It’s been a while since I put any albums on the internet. Here is the final article of my blog, a selection of photos of my trip from Mexico, back through Guatemala and Honduras to Nicaragua, and then the last bits of my journey home to England.

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Further into Honduras – The Diversity of Struggle in a Troubled Country

It has been some time since I last wrote the last article of this blog, and my year travelling is now coming to an end. I’m now back on dry land in Europe, after another (excellent) 2 week journey back by cargo ship from Central America.

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Honduras – The Attempt to Criminalise Indigenous and Human Rights leader Berta Cáceres, COPINH

After two weeks with the Zapatista indigenous rebels in Southern Mexico (see the last article – here), I then had a week’s rest being a tourist in Guatemala, before arriving in Honduras. There, as an ENCA representative, I was able to visit several environmental and social justice organisations working in a country wracked by violence and political repression since the military coup of 2009.

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Newsletter 58: May 2013

Honduran Human Rights defender Dina Meza talks of her struggles following her visit to the UK. We hear from James Watson as he reports back on our ENCA-supported ‘CMO cooker’ project and our presence at the 10th Election Observation Mission in El Salvador.

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The Zapatistas of Chiapas – Indigenous Struggles and Successes in the Face of Neoliberalism

I am just leaving Mexico after two months here, and on now on my way back to Guatemala, from where I will head further into Central America for the last two months of my trip. In Mexico I spent one month as a tourist heading around Cancun and the Yucatan Peninsular, and then up through the key state capitals of Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City.

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“IPES” – Permaculture Technology and the Fight for Solutions in El Salvador

Back in January I visited El Salvador to deliver an ENCA donation of US$500 for emergency office expenses to the Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (“IPES”, by its Spanish initials). I dropped the money off at their office in the beautiful colonial town of Suchitito, but then they were kind enough to invite me to spend a day and night on their Demonstration Centre a little further into the countryside.

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“Clinica Xochil” – volunteering in a clinic in El Viejo, Nicaragua

OK, so it’s been a very long time since I’ve been able to update my blog – I don’t think I’ve ever been as busy as I found myself in Nicaragua, which I left 2 weeks ago to start travelling Central America.

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