 Get involved!
There are many ways to be involved with SHARE’s work at different levels of commitment. We hope you will consider one of the following opportunities.
Support SHARE | Sistering Partnerships | Youth Partnerships | Theological Consortium | Volunteer
*Donate now to SHARE’s Campaign for Peace to ensure that we can provide 25 more years of accompaniment to the organized poor of El Salvador .
*Become a SHARE Sustainer. As a sustainer, you will receive a monthly letter about SHARE’s work along with your donation acknowledgement. Contact Teresa Cruz for more details: teresa@share-elsalvador.org.
*Receive the SHARE
E-Newsletter with updates
on what is going on in El Salvador and how you
can provide spiritual, moral, or physical support.
* Create a Partnership with El Salvador with SHARE’s help! Check out SHARE’s online Sistering Partnership Discernment Guide for more details. Here is a description of our partnership options below.
Regional Sistering Partnerships with women and youth groups. Through this model, which is ideal for religious institutions, community organizations, or clubs you can:
- Form bonds of friendship with people in rural Salvadoran communities. Deepen your understanding of the issues affecting Salvadorans through year-long communication, delegation visits to El Salvador , or visits from community representatives from El Salvador to your community in the United States . Build a profound connection that will last at least five years.
- Support projects that encourage women’s empowerment, leadership development, and citizen participation which help build the capacity of Salvadorans to address the problems they face on a local and national level. Hold events and fundraisers in your community that will fund these initiatives.
- Get involved in advocacy issues in the United States which affect your friends in El Salvador . Use the educational materials provided by SHARE to write letters to your Members of Congress and spread the word in your community.
Interested? Check out our Sistering Partnership Discernment Guide or contact our U.S. Grassroots Coordinator
(elinor@share-elsalvador.org)
to learn more about how you can become a partner with SHARE to build a new El Salvador today.
Youth Partnerships with regional youth groups: Through this model, which is ideal for high schools, youth groups, and undergraduate universities, you can:
- Make friends with youth and their families in a specific region of rural El Salvador . Get to know what life is like in El Salvador and practice your Spanish through delegation visits. Or bring friends from El Salvador on educational tours in your community. Build an educational and life changing relationship between institutions that will last for at least 3 years.
- Come to El Salvador on one of our annual youth delegations, which will include fun and educational activities sure to build enthusiasm within your group.
- Take advantage of our youth-friendly advocacy materials to learn about the issues facing your partner region and to make your voice heard by writing letters and giving presentations to other members of your community.
- Hold fundraisers in your community to raise funds that help the youth in your partner regions hold leadership trainings, create theater and dance troops, organize soccer tournaments, and build solutions to the economic challenges they face.
- Exchange letters or emails with youth in your partnership communities to share experiences – and even practice Spanish.
Interested? See our online Sistering Partnership Discernment Guide or contact our U.S. Grassroots Coordinator
(elinor@share-elsalvador.org) to learn more about how you can become a partner with the youth of El Salvador in their efforts to build a brighter future.
Theological Solidarity Consortium that partner theological schools and seminaries throughout the United States with El Salvador through SHARE.
- Meet people of faith who carry on Archbishop Oscar Romero's legacy through a cross- cultural educational experience on delegation.
- Join with other theological schools in a consortium of common interest in El Salvador, liberation theology, and solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the developing world.
- Foster and support values of mutual work, dialogue and discussion among North American educational institutions who work together to better their education through an immersion experience .
- Bring the educational experience full circle by building an ongoing relationship between your educational institution and SHARE.
- Interested? See our online Theological Solidarity Consortium Discernment Guide or contact our U.S. Grassroots Coordinator (elinor@share-elsalvador.org)
- to learn more about how you can become a partner with those who work to bring social justice and dignity to the poor of El Salvador.
*Volunteer as an intern in Washington DC or San Francisco. Come to Washington DC and intern for a semester or a summer with our Grassroots and Advocacy programs. Or consider volunteering in our development and fundraising office in San Francisco. Visit our website for available internships.
*Volunteer in our El Salvador field office for six months accompanying our grassroots partners. Participate in processes led by poor communities to improve conditions for marginalized communities on a local, regional and national level. Write 1-2 page reports to our Grassroots sistering base in the US providing cross border solidarity to these processes. Contact Erin Yost-Garcia, our Grassroots Program Officer in El Salvador, for more information: erin@share-elsalvador.org.
*Learn more about El Salvador by downloading this fact sheet (pdf)!
*Blog with us! Post your questions and share your experiences at SHARE's online Blog!
Check out our Grassroots Annual Report!
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