Appeal on Behalf of the Permaculture Association of Suchitoto, El Salvador

In 2015 the AEPS received $6,351 from the Educational and General Trust Fund for a programme of training of small-scale farmers from numerous communities in El Salvador. The programme involved a series of two and three day residential workshops held at the demonstration plot of the AEPS.

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Donations granted: 2015

June 2015
AIDEPC — Cosiguina Peninsula Nicaragua — Reforestation of “bufferzone”     US $1000 ( GBP 650 )
MUFRAS 32 — Integration of antimining efforts between El Salvador, Guatemala & Honduras     US $800   ( GBP 520 )
JULY 2015
CENDAH — Monitoring and training of Spiny Lobster catchers and reversal of environmental     degradation — San Blas Islands, Panama     US $ 900 ( GBP 590 )

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My Journey Ends but the Fights Continue – Connecting Local, National and International Struggles in Honduras and Beyond

13th August, 2015

My short time in Honduras has come to an end, but I have been privileged to be a part of several struggles of life-changing importance for Honduran people both at local and national levels, as they fight against the corruption and injustice in their country.

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A Two Sided Story – Mine-Affected Communities tell their Stories of Destruction and Death outside Honduras’ “First International Mining Congress”

19th July 2015

Honduras in Protest – Movements Align Against Corruption and Exploitation

While Honduras rocks from a wave of protest against the corruption rife within his government and its business links, last week president Juan Orlando Hernández proudly hosted the “First International Mining Congress in Honduras”.

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UN Fact-Finding Mission Arrives in Response to the Indignados Movement

7th July 2015 – Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Visit our Act Now page: Support the Indignados’ demands for an end to corruption in their country – sign the UK online petition, or send an easy email to your representatives in Canada or the US.

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Support Honduras’ Indignados – Act Now

Demand Change from Your Country

Please take action now to add your voice to calls for international pressure in support of the Honduran people’s Indignados movement and their calls for an International Commission against Impunity (CICIH). You can do so in a variety of ways, and I am working to establish some petitions to make this process easier.

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San Juan – Indigenous Farming Cooperative’s Defiant Stance against Land-grabbing & Murder

Friday 3rd July 2015

San Juan is a village in the hills about 3 hours by bus from La Esperanza. It isn’t as remote as San Marco – the community I last wrote about – but is in a beautifully natural setting.

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San Marco – Indigenous Land Rights vs Hydroelectric Projects

Tuesday 30th June 2015

A couple of days after arriving in La Esperanza, COPINH invited me on a trip away from their base in the town, to visit one of the communities that serve as their main focus fighting for indigenous rights in Honduras.

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The Largest Antorchas March Against Corruption so far, and the Struggle Continues – Please Act to Support Honduras’ Demands for Justice

Sunday 28th June 2015, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

CAMPAIGN UPDATE: SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION TO SUPPORT HONDURAS’ PEOPLE

ENCA has now started an online petition to make it easier for UK residents press our government to support Honduras’s people. Please go to this petition and sign now, and use the links there to spread it further with email, Facebook and Twitter!

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Las Antorchas Mass Protests & Hunger Strikers – Honduras Demands an End to Corruption

I have now been in Honduras for 1 week, mostly in rural Honduras learning about COPINH’s indigenous rights struggles. Today though I am in the capital, Tegucigalpa, as COPINH has sent a delegation to join a burgeoning “Antorchas” protest movement. This movement started to manifest itself in mass demonstrations only 2 weeks before my arrival, and it represents the broadest resistant front – and the strongest hope for an end to corruption – that the country has seen since the 2009 military coup.

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