Central America

Progresa: Guatemala Friends Scholarship Program

Progresa’s mission is to provide access to in-country educational and community development opportunities in order to bring choice into the…
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100 Years of Quiet Tenacity

Friends of Fairhope, Alabama. Laura Melvin

The Kingdom of the Committee and the Garbage Dump of God

For the last few years, Northern Yearly Meeting (FGC) and El Salvador Yearly Meeting (evangelical in character) have been building…

For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and…

Walking the Walk: Rainbow Pfaff

"My name is Rainbow Pfaff, and I have stumbled into a place where the dust and the fresh wood smoke…

Global Awareness and the Good Life

When my sister chose to volunteer at a Quaker program in Nicaragua, I thought about the country for the first…

Stories from the Line: Reflections on Protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas

I first heard of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), located on the grounds of the huge Ft.…

Heifers and Pencils

I just read an article in Christian Science Monitor entitled "Help for Uganda’s Farmers: A Heifer to Start a Family"…