CCGAP to host potluck with presentation on history of their work in Guatemala and Copper Country Mar. 10

HANCOCK -- The Copper Country Guatemala Accompaniment Project (CCGAP) is hosting a potluck supper and talk with pictures to review their history of work in Guatemala and the Copper Country on Sunday, March 10, at the First United Methodist Church in Hancock.

Sue Ellen Kingsley, CCGAP executive director, with friends in Fronterizo, the Guatemala village where she was an accompanier and which she visits often. (File photo © Karen Endres and courtesy CCGAP)

The soup/potluck will begin at 5:30 p.m. (EDT), followed by the presentation at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

CCGAP is celebrating 15 years of supporting human rights accompaniers in Guatemala as a form of violence prevention. In addition, their mission includes educating people in our North American community about conditions in non-overdeveloped countries like Guatemala. They have brought visitors from Guatemala to the Copper Country and helped local residents to visit Guatemala as well.

Click here to learn more and see more photos on the CCGAP Web site.

CCGAP to hold fundraising party Apr. 13

HANCOCK -- The Copper Country Guatemala Accompaniment Project (CCGAP) will be featuring Captain Woody Boogie and the Pirates of Groove at CCGAP's annual fundraising party from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13, at the Michigan Tech Forestry Center.

The public is invited to enjoy music, dancing, and food and to participate in a silent art auction and a drawing for the grand prize of a genuine handwoven Guatemalan wool blanket -- and many other prizes. Tickets are $5 apiece and will be available at the door. Food will be available for a donation.

The CCGAP sponsors accompaniment for Guatemalan human rights workers who are at risk for violence; the group also contributes toward the education of poor indigenous Mayan Guatemalans.

Visit ccgap.org to learn more about this work. Click here for the March 2012 newsletter, including an article by CCGAP accompanier Megan Whelan, stories about two indigenous women recipients of CCGAP scholarships and their educational challenges, and more.