Action for Health in the Americas
US Partner of Educación Popular en Salud
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 this work, you can make a tax deductible donation online by going to AHA’s Donation page – thank you!
Stories of Hope: Soup Kitchens
Read the May EPES Update here!
Dear friends of EPES and AHA ,
Needless to say that Covid 19 has affected everyone. EPES, as we and its community have come to expect, once again has stepped up during this extraordinary times to go above and beyond in supporting those who need it most. Through your generosity, EPES continues to meet these challenges head on. This May’s EPES Update focuses on what EPES has been able to quickly do to address the new needs of the communities they work with.
Fortunately – yes fortunately – your contribution provides more benefit than ever. Due to the strong dollar and the very weak Chilean peso, we are quickly converting US dollar contributions into Chilean pesos, reaping a benefit of approximately 38%….in other words, for every $1 you donate, it will be equivalent to $1.38.
We are so thankful for your continued support to EPES. If you are able to, we hope you will consider making a contribution now so that we can take advantage the the favorable exchange rate and help EPES to stretch their budget.
Many thanks,
The Action for Health in the Americas Board
Read the EPES Update on the 11th International Training Program here!
Dear Friends of EPES,
EPES’ 11th International Training Program (the Escuela) was held during the third month of national protests in Chile. Ninety-four percent of Chileans are demanding a change of the 1980 Constitution in order to be able to build a fairer country. The demands of the social movement are the right to education and health, pensions and living wages. EPES supports the Chilean people in their struggle for dignity and justice, and condemns the state terrorism that prevails in the country. The police repression has been denounced by four international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The National Institute of Human Rights has received 4,780 complaints as of January 15, 2020, for homicides, torture, mutilation, arbitrary detentions, sexual violence, among other human rights violations; and has filed 1,118 legal actions in favor of 1,476 victims.
AHA is excited to share information about EPES’ new educational board game: From Seed to Your Plate!
From Seed to Your Plate is a Spanish language board game developed by EPES for health and educational professionals, community members, high school and college students, social and/or political organizations.
The game invites players to engage in conversation and analyze the economic, political, social and cultural factors that influence what we eat and how it affects our health and environment.
From Seed to Your Plate facilitates and stimulates critical analysis and consciousness raising necessary to motivate collective actions to bring about changes to food environments. The game is designed to illustrate changes we have witnessed in the global food system in the past 40 years, and explore ideas of how to resist Big Food and Big Agriculture.
Check out our website to learn more and order a game today!
The resistance movement in Chile that you read about in the last EPES Update continues, and as you know it has been met with violent and criminal treatment by the Chilean police and military.
Salud a la Calle is a group of medical providers (doctors, nurses, EMT workers, etc.) organized to assist demonstrators that have been wounded by the police in Chile’s recent popular demonstrations. They have just opened a small permanent clinic (policlinico de atencion) for follow-up of the wounded.
If you are in the New York City area, please come out to their fundraiser on January 10th to support their great work. Details in poster below!
Action for Health in the Americas