Click on the attached PDF to read more about the tragedies and how you can get involved. Also, receive an update from LaOroya, learn about how Jeweler Peggy Eng volunteered her time with Fair Trade artisan group Munay Rumi, discover the Florandina Dairy factory in Huancavelica, Peru, and meet YAV Leslie McKnelly.
read more about Peru's Artisan Day celebrations, meet the new members of the Joining Hands-Peru team, learn about the dry forest of Carabayllo, get an update about Doe Run Peru and MORE! This months YAV spotlight is Mike Sinklier and there is a fair trade artisan tour coming to the states, possibly to your hometown. Also, take an opportunity to get involved by signing a petition for Justice at Putis.
Wow is 2009 off to an exciting and busy start! Check out this dual month issue to read more about the 2nd Annual Environmental Youth Congress, Huanuco's TAMAR Collective summer camps, the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Peru, the Joining Hands general assembly, and to meet YAV Lynn Hasselbarth!
Take a moment to remember the tragedy of Putis, Peru, read about member orgnaization's youth coming together to make a difference in their environments and communities, and a Christmas greeting from the editor.
Contamination issues in La Oroya, Peru to be highlighted on CNNs documentary Planet in Peril: Battlelines on Dec 11, 9pm EST. Documentary films of the Joining Hands network are available and YAV Spotlight on Alex Cornell and his work with the North East Lima Presbytery and Christian Life Fellowship.
CEDEPAS celebrates 24 years!, YAV Spotlight: Meet Sean Kerr!, EPA changes permissible airborne lead limit for the first time in 30 years, consider what it means to be a responsible consumer in a struggling economy.
YAV's come to live and work in Peru for one year, CEDEMUNEP holds candlelit vigil for one year anniversary of earthquake, Update from LaOroya, ASJANTS and a building for books, and Ica/Huancavelica water rights issue.
Our newsletter, available in pdf below, is entitled "La Retama". This bright yellow flower grows abundantly throughout the Peruvian Andes. Its deep roots make the bush extremely difficult to uproot. And even if you could, so effective is the bush's seed production that the next season, a hundred more retama bushes would sprout up. The retama flower was soon transformed into a symbol of indigenous resistance to the Spanish Conquest and is mentioned in many popular ballads and poetry. As Peruvian and North American churches and communities, illuminated by their shared Christian spirituality, join together to create an alternative community to the pressing currents of globalization (Romans 12:1-2), we propose to keep you informed of our progress and struggles in this newsletter.
