Friday, March 4, 2011

Cultural Enhancement Projects

Cultural Development and Enhancement Project
        Opportunity to be part of it!
Nineteen of us including 10 students from Stanford University are going on the South Bay Sanctuary Covenant March 2011 delegation to El Salvador. We are raising money to help people in our partner community Comunidad Octavio Ortiz and the other 28 communities of the United Communities of the Lower Lempa River enhance their cultural development.
 This project is a top priority for the United Communities. All of the 29 communities were formed after the civil war that ravaged El Salvador for over 12 years (1980 – 1992).  These communities are rural and poor and lack adequate access to health care and education.  Local youth are especially vulnerable to outside influences and some want to leave.  Communities want to ensure that youth are aware of their identity, proud of their culture, and will stay and be good citizens.
The project has four goals:
  • Improve the abilities of local citizens to understand and experience their culture;
  • Create open spaces that encourage independent civic participation at the local and national levels;
  • Increase the knowledge of culture in the Lower Lempa;
  • Decrease the influence of the materialistic culture around fashion and mega projects.
 
Activities under the project will include developing and strengthening local programs that promote theatre, dance, music, art, and other areas, as well as conserve their cultural heritage through documentation, historical memory projects, and a cultural study.   This will include a mural in our partner community.

 
Will you please help us with this wonderful community project?
Our goal is $3,000.  This will be TRIPLED by 2 Canadian support groups.
Please make a tax deductible check to University Lutheran/SBSC and mail to
South Bay Sanctuary Covenant
3290 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306

We welcome prayers and/or positive thoughts that we may be channels of God’s love and justice and receive inspiration from those we are with.

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