MISSIONSHARE strengthens solidarity with and among the Salvadoran people in El Salvador and the United States in the struggle for economic sustainability, justice, and human and civil rights.
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The SHARE Foundation is committed to support and accompany the people of El Salvador and Honduras in their struggle for social justice and sustainable development.
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VISIONTo transform society, SHARE increases the capacity of organized communities and their partners through our model of mutual accompaniment.
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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