Global Ministries

In this newsletter, EPES discusses a new mural painted at EPES offices by artist Pancho Ramos, the continued successes of the EPES international training program, EPES activities for International Women's Day, and continued educational initiatives around nutrition as well as sexuality.

In this newsletter, EPES details several of their nutritional programs working with schools and underserved communities as part of their nutrition and justice programs. There are articles about EPES' shared work with Kenyan partners, a visit from the ELCA, and collaboration with Puerto Rican partners. This newsletter also gives an update on the Justice for Amelia campaign.  

Thanks to the support of Global Ministries, Popular Education in Health (EPES) organized a self-care retreat this past weekend for the families and the closest friends of the leaders of the Las Cañas Community Center, Mauricio and Camila. Their daughter, Amelia, at the age of one year and nine months, died two months ago at the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso, due to medical negligence and the consequences of the great inequality the Chilean society faces in accessing health.

In a recent publication, EPES shares two testimonies from women who have been impacted by the work of EPES in their communities.

In this newsletter, EPES shares news from a fire prevention seminar that was supported with funding from Global Ministries. There are also articles about Healing Touch therapy workshops, the value of popular education through the eyes of Puerto Rican health promoters, and a nutritional health program for preschool and nursery school teachers.

In this newsletter, EPES shares news from the annual EPES Human Rights Forum, which this year focused on immigration in Chile. EPES also celebrated their 35th anniversary and shares an update on the nutrition project. 

In the most recent newsletter from EPES in Chile, EPES shares about the most recent class to graduate from the International Course on Popular Education for Health, the involvement of EPES in a new Health Ministry initiative, and more. 

Some 1,200 troops and 500 firefighters have joined the effort to control Chile's worst forest fires in decades.  A state of emergency has been declared in a vast area south of the capital, Santiago. The blazes began over a week ago and spread quickly in the dry and particularly hot summer that many South American countries are experiencing.  President Michelle Bachelet said she had asked for help from countries with experience of forest fires.  "The firefighters are doing all that is humanly possible," she said. 

In the most recent newsletter from EPES in Chile, EPES shares about the first group of Nutritional Health Promoters to graduate from their nutritional health advocacy training program, new initiatives to continue to influence public health policy in Chile, and more. 

In recent years, the Theological Community of Chile (CTE) has been expanding. In the last Assembly, the CTE received three new churches as fraternal members – bringing the number up to eight. They also increased their denominational affiliations and now have 64 different denominations participating in their work. In 2016, the number of students enrolled in the theological school exceeded 200. The Theological Community of Chile believes this is a direct response to some of the strategies the CTE has implemented.