Delegations
Each year Jubilee Justice organizes faith-based delegations to developing countries to raise awareness of economic, political, and social disparities. On our trips we visit representatives of political, social and religious institutions, and stay for two to three days with ordinary families of the countries we visit. Over the years we have visited Colombia, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Chiapas, Mexico.
For the last three years we have led delegations co-sponsored by our partners, the Equal Exchange Interfaith Program. Equal Exchange is the oldest and largest fair trade company in the US. This year, from January 24 to
February 3, 2009, we will return to Chiapas, Mexico to study the effects of politics, economics, and greed on impoverished farmers.
Click on the link below to go to a video of a past trip to Chiapas.
For more information on our January 2009 delegation back to Chiapas, click on these links:
- Click here for a pdf brochure with goals and details on the trip
- Click here to download a Word.doc application form
- Click here for online application form from Witness For Peace, who will be hosting us on the ground in Chiapas.
- Click here to send us an email for more information. You may also call 781-504-6875.
- Click here for Equal Exchange's pictures and description of last year's delegation.
- Click here to go to our blog for our January 2009 delegation
- Click here for an article reprinted from The Other Side magazine on the crisis in coffee and its impact on one coffee farmer.
- Click here
to go to an article by Stan Duncan in the October, 2006, United Church
News about two young people from Chiapas from coffee growing families
who tried (and failed) to migrate to the US.
- And, finally, click here for a photo essay of our trip in 2006 to Chiapas by participant, Jeff Bastian.