NEW !! Did you know that we have a fantastic new way to raise funds to supply schools with computers in El Salvador!
Every time you shop at the Hbc family of stores, The Bay, Zellers, or Home Outfitters, you can donate your Rewards Points to SalvAide. The points you donate will help us get closer to redeeming points for computers.
Our Goal We need 5,250,000—7,500,000 points per computer.
Link your points with us and watch our points grow.
How do you link your Rewards points to SalvAide?
SalvAide has a desire to share what we have here with those who are much less fortunate, even to the point of not having some of the basic necessities of life that we take for granted.
When you Donate to SalvAide
you create positive social change.
Each gift to SalvAide is an investment
in the future of people in need in El Salvador.
Let's join hands
and respond to the needs of
our sisters and brothers in
El Salvador!
This fund has been set up to honour the memory of Ana Osorio, former Executive Director and Administrator of SalvAide who left us in the summer of 2009, far too soon.
Ana joined the solidarity movement for El Salvador at the beginning of the eighties when it was most needed. With her innate intelligence and outgoing personality, Ana was instrumental in establishing and strengthening SalvAide’s Twin Community Program as well as in guiding many Canadian fact-finding delegations to that country. To date both initiatives remain at the core of SalvAide’s programming and contribute to Ana’s legacy of strengthening the capacity of impoverished rural communities in El Salvador. It is a direct result of Ana’s kindness and commitment to El Salvador that many Canadians have been inspired to become agents of change.
This fund will act as a testimony to the fact that Ana will remain in the hearts of the Salvadoran and Canadian communities as a pioneer of Canadian humanitarian aid for El Salvador. Through its proceeds, which will be earmarked for projects geared to building the capacity of youth and women, Ana’s work as a promoter of sisterhood between these two countries and her hopes of creating a fairer world will continue.
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30th Anniversary Monseñor Romero
Delegation 2010 March 19th – March 25th, 2010 SalvAide, in solidarity with the people of
El Salvador,
will remember the life, and
death,
of this champion human rights defender.
“An injustice to one is an injustice to all.” - Martin Luther King jr.
Think of no one as "them".
Don't confuse your comfort with your safety.
Talk to strangers. Listen to music you don't understand. Dance to it. Learn a second (or third) language. Refuse to wear corporate logos: defy corporate domination. Visit people, places, and cultures, not tourist attractions. Know your heritage.
Don't confuse money with wealth or time with money. Honor indigenous cultures. Notice the workings of power & privilege in your culture. Question consumption.
Know where your lettuce & coffee are grown: wake up & smell the exploitation. Look for fair trade & union labels. Help build economies from the bottom up.
Acquire few needs. Learn people's history. Re-define progress. Know physical & political geography. Play games from other cultures. Watch films with subtitles. Honor everyone's holidays. Read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Understand the global economy in terms of people, land & water. Know where your bank banks.
Never believe you have a right to anyone else's resources. Question military/corporate connections. Have a pen/email pal. Be skeptical about what you read. Eat adventurously. Enjoy vegetables, beans & grains in your diet. Chose curiosity over certainty. Know where your water comes from & where your wastes go.
Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism. Think South, Central and North — there are many Americans. Assume that many others share your dreams. Know that no one is silent though many are not heard. Work to change this.
Listen to the Executive Director
Laura Haylock discuss the importance
of International Observation on
Radio Canada International.
Listen here >
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The Ana Osorio Memorial Fund
