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"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."

- Geri Weitzman

Radio Interviews

Hear interviews with MOFGA's El Salvador Sistering Committee on WERU Community Radio Station. Details.

Fair Trade Coffee

MOFGA Volunteers work closely with Salvadoran coffee growers and processors to promote sustainably grown, fairly traded coffee. Details.

Indigo Dye

Among the oldest dyes used for textiles. This indigo comes to us through our El Salvador Sistering Committee, which collaborates with Salvadoran farmers and artisans working to revive the traditional, non-toxic industry. Indigo is high quality with 46% intensity. Order online.

El Salvador Sistering Project

MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee volunteers visit organic coffee farmer Don Raul in Valle de Jesus. January 2007.

MOFGA's El Salvador Sistering Project maintains a relationship between MOFGA and two Salvadoran grassroots organizations working toward sustainable agriculture. The committee explores issues such as organic certification, free trade, marketing, etc., that affect farmers in both countries. Several delegations from Maine have visited El Salvador, and delegates from El Salvador have come to Maine to tour farms and participate in the Common Ground Country Fair.

Each April, the El Salvador Sistering Committee hosts an Empty Bowl Supper in Belfast to raise funds for the ongoing collaborative work. Dinner guests make donations to the efforts, enjoy a hearty meal, and take home beautiful, handcrafted bowls made by Maine artisans. We are always looking for donations of handmade bowls (including seconds!) from potters. If you have bowls to donate, contact Karen Volckhausen. Thanks!

Information for Prospective El Salvador Sistering Project Committee Members

Reports from Past MOFGA Delegations to El Salvador

Delegates from El Salvador have come to Maine to tour farms and participate in the Common Ground Country Fair

US-El Salvador Sister Cities

MOFGA's El Salvador Sistering Committee works closely with the U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities Network, a grass-roots organization of U.S. citizens and residents who have ongoing partnerships with small rural communities in El Salvador. Those partnerships began in 1986 as a citizen-based response to the U.S. intervention in El Salvador’s civil war. Today, twenty sister cities from across the U.S. are paired with Salvadoran communities in six of El Salvador’s fourteen provinces. The Association for the Development of El Salvador, or CRIPDES, facilitates these efforts. Sister Cities works to connect and strengthen movements for social justice in the U.S. and El Salvador by sharing experiences, support, and accompaniment. The organization strives to build a new kind of globalization, one built from the ground up and united by human values of justice and solidarity. More information about Sister Cities.