Description
In April, a Cambridge delegation of 9 CRLS students, teachers and community activists traveled to El Salvador to learn about the realities in El Salvador and visit Cambridge's sister city of 28 years. The delegation met with women's groups, youth leaders and organizers in San Salvador to learn about the history and current situation before traveling to Las Flores for 5 days.
Welcomed warmly, delegates spent time in the schools, worked in the school garden, visited the community projects, met with young people and talked with city officials. New exchanges between the Amigos School and Las Flores school were cemented after songs and letters and videos were exchanged.
Please join us on May 15. The delegates are excited to share their experiences in the forms of images and words at this report back/Salsa evening. There will be a slide show from 7-7:45 p.m. Learn more about the youth and gangs, organizing inspirations, popular education, permaculture in the schools, women's' lives, political advances and challenges. After the slide show (approximately 7:45 p.m., everyone is invited to group pop, dance the merengue, bachata and salsa.
Members of the delegation include: Amigos music teacher Sharon Hamel; Cambridge organizer Stephanie Guirand; CRLS students Emma Ramsdell, Maribel Rawson-Stone and Jesse Simmons; CRLS media staff Erica Modugno; and Sister City Project founders Nancy Ryan, Cathy Hoffman and Rachel Wyon.
Link to Salsa Flier