The West Michigan based organization Nonviolent Ways Project has posted a web page with photos and text describing their June delegation to Mexico. This focus of the delegation was organic farming and community development in several Mexican base communities. Here is a brief description of the delegations activities from co-founder Wes Rehberg:

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We visitors had come to help reforest the semi-arid area and plant vegetables, but also to share in the “convivencia,” the connected life of rural base community people.” “One dream was to construct costly greenhouses, a project underway in San Antonio and planned for the neighboring community of La Union. These would enable earlier planting and a jump on the market.”

“Another was improved schools, like the effort in La Union, where a small secondary school addition was under construction. Kids up to about 15 years old from both communities attended, the schools an intercommunity and clever political achievement.”

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Our roles during the June 15-25 journey included planting 119 trees around the periphery of a soccer field, escorting more than 20 community children on their first visit to the Teotihuacan Aztec pyramids, planting and fertilizing vegetables, and perhaps most importantly, being part of community life, of the convivencia.”