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Colombia Exposure Trip

Thanks to your gifts to M&S, I was able to go on an exposure trip to Colombia from March 19th to March 28th. There were two parts of my trip- from March 20th to the 23rd I was able to attend the meetings for Peace for Life, a United Church sponsored international group which seeks to promote justice and right relationships with people around the world. At those meetings, a long with 50 other international guests, I heard from indigenous peoples, farmers, labour leaders, teachers, students, ecumenical groups who talked about their struggle for human rights in Colombia.

From March 24th to the 27th, I went to the oil city of Barranca. There travelling with 6 other international guests I met with a women's justice organization, family members of masacre victims, women who had been displaced by war, community leaders, a war resistors group, a youth art collective that used their talents to reject poverty and injustice, and a diversity support group.