The Social Service Worker Program, Perth Campus  - This two-year diploma program prepares students to work with disadvantaged individuals, groups, and community members. To enhance students' learning of global social welfare issues, students may elect to participate in a study tour to visit rural community projects in El Salvador. This experience is in partnership with SalvAide. El Salvador has been ravaged by a lengthy civil war, as well as earthquakes and hurricanes, and continues to battle poverty.

Algonquin College 2007 Delegation to El Salvador

Algonquin College Delegations

Algonquin College 2006 Delegation to El Salvador

Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2006 Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2005 Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2004 Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2003 Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2002 Salvaide Annual Auction and Dinner 2001 A benefit to empower women in El Salvador - International Women’s Day 2004

Learn more about this past Fair Trade delegation to El Salvador, where volunteers became acquainted with two grass-roots Salvadoran non-governmental sustainable development organizations that SalvAide supports in El Salvador, CRIPDES and CORDES. They worked with CRIPDES initiatives in San Vicente, as well as various CORDES projects such as the Coffee Fair trade and Cashews.   Fair Trade Delegaton 2006

This two-week intensive delegation to El Salvador was the core experiencial component of a Special Topics course in The Social Justice & Peace Studies at King's University College at The University of Western Ontario. This delegation provided an important opportunity for Canadian participants to learn about the challenges of development in rural El Salvador, and to establish solidarity links between Salvadorans and Canadians. Food Security Delegation 2006

Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy SalvAide presented Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy in concert on September 15th, 2006 at The Canadian Museum of Civilization. He is one of the best known of Nicaraguan Singers / songwriters.  His songs speak of the history and the life of Nicaraguans.  Click on the above link to visit his web site, or on his picture to the right to read more about him and to see more photos.

Her Revolution This unique one-person biographical show examined the political struggles of a young woman. Written and performed by Julia Ahumada Grob, a young Chilean-American dramatist/actress, is an autobiographical interpretation and effort to understand her political and personal identity. Daughter of Chilean solidarity activists, a mother from the U.S. and an exiled Chilean father, the young actress interpreted seven parts, amongst them her own mother; her father; a light hearted “gringa” solidarity worker; a Chilean political activist; her name sake, Julia; and herself.  Click on above link to read more.

 

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