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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, and human and civil rights.
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VISION
To transform society, SHARE increases the capacity of organized communities and their partners through our model of mutual accompaniment.
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Our Campaigns in El Salvador and Honduras
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SHARE's Partners in El Salvador:
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Berta Saves the River/Berta Salva el Río
This inspirational book engages children, parents, and teachers by portraying real-life indigenous, Honduran leader Berta Cáceres. Through Ana, a young girl living in a remote Lenca village, we see a drama of courage unfold. Against powerful odds, the villagers save their life-sustaining river from being dammed for the profit of others.
The book benefits Hondurans directly. All profits go to Honduran communities struggling for land, water, and resource rights. The SHARE Foundation will transmit funds via its grassroots partnership network. |
Solidarity actions for the 5 Water Defenders of Santa Marta and ADESSolidarity Actions to Demand Freedom for the 5 Water Defenders of Santa Marta and ADES.Fact Finding Report on the Detained El Salvador Water Defenders, Mining, and the State of Human Rights under the Bukele Administration. Read More...
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WOMEN'S 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. Join us in the struggle for social justice and let's give back to women and youth what poverty, war, and discrimination tried to take away.
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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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2022- High School 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 28 years of support, SHARE has seen the success in this support and accompaniment, 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.
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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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ROSES IN DECEMBER
Virtual Museum
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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 [email protected] or to SHARE 2425 College Ave. Berkeley CA 94704 |
Monument in the Chapel of Santiago Nonualco
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41st Anniversary of the Four Churchwomen of El Salvador
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