Meghan Ochal

EPES Spring 2022 Update: Celebrating 40 Years!

Read the Spring 2022 EPES Update here! Get info and sign up to join the 40th celebration in Chile here! Donate to support the 40th anniversary fund here! Dear friends of EPES, Forty years—can you believe it! EPES was born when Chile was in the depths of the Pinochet dictatorship, and we didn’t know thenContinue reading “EPES Spring 2022 Update: Celebrating 40 Years!”

Fall 2021 EPES Update: Supporting Human Rights, Mental Health, Food Sovereignty, and More – All During a Pandemic

Download and read the Fall 2021 EPES Update here! Dear friends of EPES, I am always moved and impressed when I receive descriptions of EPES’ latest work and realize how much they are able to do with so few resources. In 2021 alone, EPES reached people from 18 countries, all while coping with the ongoingContinue reading “Fall 2021 EPES Update: Supporting Human Rights, Mental Health, Food Sovereignty, and More – All During a Pandemic”

The Spring 2021 EPES Update is here!

Download and read the May 2021 EPES Update here! Dear friends of EPES, When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Chile last year, it struck a country already in a profound state of crisis. The brutal repression in response to social protests beginning in the fall of 2019 was the worst seen since the days of theContinue reading “The Spring 2021 EPES Update is here!”

The November 2020 EPES Update is here!

Download and read the November EPES Update here! Dear friends of EPES,I hope this finds you and your families safe and well. We are living in a world quite different from the one we took for granted when I last wrote to you, one that is more difficult in many ways, but one in whichContinue reading “The November 2020 EPES Update is here!”

Stories of Hope and Resistance from Chile

This series, Stories of Hope and Resistance from Chile, presents accounts of concrete ways EPES is working to address the covid-19 crisis as it affects the communities, families and people EPES loves and works with in Chile. Click on the titles below to read the stories! For US friends who would like to support thisContinue reading “Stories of Hope and Resistance from Chile”