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| La Carpio is a barrio of San José, Costa Rica, popular with recent immigrants from Nicaragua. Our community center offers several important services to residents, including youth programs to provide alternatives to the prevalent gang affiliation in the neighborhood. Read more. |
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We're a community for many things. For ideas, like community-appropriate development, equal dignity, fair trade, & social justice.
For partnership & for friendship, with all its risks and rewards.
We're a community for putting those ideas into action, for learning how to care for orphans and widows, how to holistically treat others as we'd like to be treated ourselves, & how not to overlook or ignore anyone.
That's because we're a community for the people those ideas empower and support. We're for Alondra, Carlos, and the rest of the children at our home in Coronado, Costa Rica. For people like Jorge, a gang member & father at age 14, who live in the barrio of La Carpio, outside San José, Costa Rica, where our community center is located. For Oaxaqueño subsistence farmers in the Zapoteco village of La Cumbre, who are able to survive in the land of their ancestors because of appropriate technology innovations, like home-made egg incubators, that enable them to feed their families.
We're a community for the Batwa, some of the world's most forgotten people. We're for exploring how we can walk alongside them as they pursue their dream of acquiring land for a landless people.
We are a community for because of our faith. Because of our desire to exercise pure religion, looking after orphans and widows in their distress. Because Jesus said, I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, I was homeless and you gave me a room, I was shivering and you gave me clothes, I was sick and you stopped to visit, I was in prison and you came to me. And when his sheep asked him what he meant he said, I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me. |
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Haiti Update
Here is a link to the DCC's most recent Haiti update (Feb 26).
http://www.delcaminoconnection.org/en/inde... Read more. |
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| Communityfor believes in partnership between communities, which makes your involvement crucial to our work. You are an important partner, and we value your support. Read more. |
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