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Jan. 22, 2022, date for the beatification in El Salvador
of Fr. Rutilio Grande S.J. Nelson Lemus, Manuel Solorzano, and Fr. Cosme Espessoto. 
𝑳𝒆𝒕❜𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑮𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒕!
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MISSION
SHARE strengthens solidarity with and among the Salvadoran people in El Salvador and the United States in the struggle for economic sustainability, justice, human and civil rights |
VISION
To transform society, SHARE increases the capacity of organized communities and their partners through our model of mutual accompaniment |
BUILDING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND LEAD
Help us connect people with the help they deserve.
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Join us in the struggle for social justice and lets give back to women and youth what poverty, war and discrimination tried to take away. SHARE's Partners in El Salvador: |
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Vamos a la Milpa
Please help!
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Dear friends of the people of Honduras,
Warmest greetings and hope you are healthy and well. Two months after a pair of hurricanes decimated Honduras left 80% of people without necessary resources. It destroyed and affected up to 80% of the country’s agricultural production, utter despair, and near starvation is griping the population. READ MORE.. |
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Sign letter to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Dear Sisters and brothers,
Warmest greetings and hopes you are well.
We are writing to ask you to help us get members of your community to sign the attached letter to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The letter is a statement of support for a SHARE-sponsored delegation of religious and community leaders traveling to Honduras July 2-12, 2021 at the invitation of Sister Rosa Maria Troches, SSND and Father Ishmael “Melo” Coto, SJ. The purpose of the delegation is twofold:
1. To support a promising local initiative – Vamos a la Milpa – to build food security and community bonds.
2. To visit the families of 8 environmentalists from Guapinol unjustly incarcerated for over a year and seek their release.
Vamos a la Milpa draws from the age-old indigenous tradition of planting vegetable gardens of corn, beans, squash, fruit trees, medicinal plants, flowers and more. Not unlike the “victory gardens” planted during WWII in the United States, the campaign is an effort to promote local sources of food and solidarity as communities confront the devastation, dislocation and hunger caused by the recent natural disasters, the endemic violence and corruption plaguing their countries, and the recent hurricanes that further devastated the region. It also brings communities together to demand basic human rights, the rule of law, and due process.
Our hope is to gather as many signatures as possible of men and women religious by June 30th, 2021.
Read the letter and sign, PLEASE SIGN HERE.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Jean Stokan, Justice Coordinator at Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, jstokan@sistersofmercy.org, 202-841-0533 (cell) or
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation, jose@share-elsalvador.org, 510-848-8487.
Thank you so very much for your consideration of this request.
On behalf of the “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee,
Partial List of “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee:
Amy Argenal, University of San Francisco Sister Valeria Lewandoski, OSM
Jose Artiga, SHARE Foundation Mary Ann Perrone
Rev. Dev. Avery, Presbyterian Church Eileen Purcell, SHARE Advisory Board
Rev. Marilyn Chilcote, Presbyterian Church Sister Ann Pratt, OP.
Sister Diane Clyne, RSM Sister Ann Scholz, SSND
Sister Kathleen Erickson, RSM Jean Stokan, Sisters of Mercy Justice Coordinator
Rev. Deborah Lee, IM4HI
Warmest greetings and hopes you are well.
We are writing to ask you to help us get members of your community to sign the attached letter to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The letter is a statement of support for a SHARE-sponsored delegation of religious and community leaders traveling to Honduras July 2-12, 2021 at the invitation of Sister Rosa Maria Troches, SSND and Father Ishmael “Melo” Coto, SJ. The purpose of the delegation is twofold:
1. To support a promising local initiative – Vamos a la Milpa – to build food security and community bonds.
2. To visit the families of 8 environmentalists from Guapinol unjustly incarcerated for over a year and seek their release.
Vamos a la Milpa draws from the age-old indigenous tradition of planting vegetable gardens of corn, beans, squash, fruit trees, medicinal plants, flowers and more. Not unlike the “victory gardens” planted during WWII in the United States, the campaign is an effort to promote local sources of food and solidarity as communities confront the devastation, dislocation and hunger caused by the recent natural disasters, the endemic violence and corruption plaguing their countries, and the recent hurricanes that further devastated the region. It also brings communities together to demand basic human rights, the rule of law, and due process.
Our hope is to gather as many signatures as possible of men and women religious by June 30th, 2021.
Read the letter and sign, PLEASE SIGN HERE.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Jean Stokan, Justice Coordinator at Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, jstokan@sistersofmercy.org, 202-841-0533 (cell) or
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation, jose@share-elsalvador.org, 510-848-8487.
Thank you so very much for your consideration of this request.
On behalf of the “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee,
Partial List of “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee:
Amy Argenal, University of San Francisco Sister Valeria Lewandoski, OSM
Jose Artiga, SHARE Foundation Mary Ann Perrone
Rev. Dev. Avery, Presbyterian Church Eileen Purcell, SHARE Advisory Board
Rev. Marilyn Chilcote, Presbyterian Church Sister Ann Pratt, OP.
Sister Diane Clyne, RSM Sister Ann Scholz, SSND
Sister Kathleen Erickson, RSM Jean Stokan, Sisters of Mercy Justice Coordinator
Rev. Deborah Lee, IM4HI
ROSES IN DECEMBER
Virtual Museum in construction
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Roses in December 40th Anniversary Celebration 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of four U.S. women religious. On December 2, 1980, members of the U.S.-trained-Salvadoran National Guard raped and killed lay worker Jean Donovan, Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, MM, and Maura Clarke, MM, and Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, OSU. The women had been accompanying the Salvadoran people displaced by war and poverty. Their witness cost them their lives. Their deaths shook the world and were emblematic of the violence suffered by the Salvadoran people and the power of accompaniment.
The SHARE Foundation in partnership with LCWR has been celebrating the lives of our sisters; we are gathering pictures, art, and testimonies to remember them. We invite you to send us any material you may have on Ita, Maura, Dorothy, and Jean to Jose@share-elsalvador.org or to SHARE 2425 College Ave. Berkeley CA 94704 |
40th Anniversary Commemoration
Altar in the Chapel of Santiago Nonualco
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Photos of the 40th Anniversary Celebration 2020
in Chalatenago and Santiago Nonualgo |
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT The SHARE Foundation strongly believes in the empowerment of rural women. Along with our partners in El Salvador, we continue to promote organic agriculture programs, emphasizing in the development of management skills for home gardening.
In 2020, this program benefited over 300 women and their families, who are now working their own organic gardens, caring for their land and improving their diet as well as their family members. ACHIEVEMENTS PER YEAR:
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Women from communities of Chalatenango.
Women have been in a workshop how to prepare food and natural medicine of plants they have cultivated.
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High School and University Scholarship Students of the UCRES region
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SUPPORTING AND EDUCATING YOUTHSince 1994, SHARE has promoted and coordinated scholarship programs for young leaders of scarce resources in rural areas. SHARE started this program with the aim of supporting young leaders to carry out their intermediate and university studies in the departments of Chalatenango, San Vicente, La Libertad and San Salvador. In 25 years of support we have seen the success in this support, hundreds of young boys and girls have completed their high school studies and a good number have culminated their university careers.
SHARE also supports youth with cultural programs, developing dance and theater groups, peace marching bands and agricultural schools for improving youth diets. All this support has contributed to the prevention of violence and gang membership.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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It is SHARE's constant effort to advocate and raise awareness about environmental justice, including prevention and responses to climate change.
According to the United Nations, El Salvador has the most devastated natural environment in the western hemisphere, after Haiti, with 93% of its water polluted by toxic chemicals, heavy metals and waste matter. The SHARE Foundation is accompanying in solidarity the different organizations, Universities and Churches who demand a responsible and equitable water governance in El Salvador. |
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