Madison Arcatao Sister City Project
We are preparing to travel to El Salvador – Join Us!
WHAT: A gathering to discuss a trip to Arcatao
Saturday, March 16, 10 a.m. – 12 noon
WHERE: Finca Coffee, 2500 Rimrock Rd #105.
WHEN: The trip will take place June 9-16, 2024.
WHY: We sponsor these trips for three reasons:
–>Offering the opportunity to people in Madison to experience our sister city for themselves,
–>Renewing our friendship with the people of Arcatao and witness the joys and challenges of their lives
–>Bringing current personal stories from Arcatao and El Salvador to the Madison community and to Wisconsin’s representatives in Congress.
ABOUT: The Madison Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) was created in 1986 at the height of the brutal Salvadoran civil war, which lasted from 1980 until the Peace Accords in 1992. Read about the Sister City project.
The theme this year is water quality, water rights, and how sugar cane production affects water and environmental quality in El Salvador. To explore these areas, we’ll be talking with social justice activists in San Salvador, visiting the organized southern community of Las Anonas where sugar cane is produced, and renewing friendships in Arcatao where our sister city is fighting to retain control of their water and avoid privatization.
We’ll explore El Salvador, too. Options include hiking El Boqueron, the volcano outside San Salvador; visiting Shicali Cerámica, a pottery workshop in El Salvador; and exoloring St Romero’s home, chapel, and meditation garden. Join the group now and help plan our itinerary!
As usual, we’ll be traveling with US El Salvador Sister City (USESSC) staff member, Zulma Tobar, who will make all our travel, housing and activity arrangements in El Salvador. Depending on air fare, the total cost should be under $2000. This amount includes all meals, transportation, visits and home stays as well as a payment to USESSC for the organizing, guiding and interpreting. Last year the total cost was around $1700.
Interested? Have questions? Want more information? Friends of MASCP, past travelers to El Salvador, curious about MASCP, lovers of great coffee and pupusas? You are all invited to these gatherings! See you there!
info@mascp.org
Or text Joan: 608 556-0717.
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