June 10th Dinner Forum: The Life and Death of Sister Maura
Many will remember the grainy images of the bodies being pulled from a shallow grave 37 years ago during El Salvador’s brutal civil war. But few know the background stories […]
Category Archives: Past Events
Saturday May 13th: Help us pack our 71st Aid Shipment to Nicaragua
Un mano, por favor… On Saturday May 13th we’ll be packing a 45′ shipping container full of material aid for our Nicaragua partners. In addition to bringing us donations to send […]
Help Needed: April 29th Pre-Shipment Packing Day
We’ll be meeting up at our storage facility at the Shrine of St. Joseph on Saturday April 29th from 10am-2pm to organize and box donations for our 71st humanitarian aid […]
$1500 Raised at Wine Tasting Fundraiser for the Axayacatl Women’s Collective
Thank you to everyone who came out to try a special selection of wines and join PeaceWorks in supporting women’s empowerment projects in Nicaragua! Together, we raised $1500.00! Wines were chosen by […]
March 11th Dinner Forum: Our January Delegation to Nicaragua
“People-to-people, pueblo a pueblo,” is not just a slogan slapped on the bottom of our logo. It means that we make a concerted effort, year after year, to connect our local […]
PeaceWorks and Axayacatl: Fighting Domestic Violence in Nicaragua
The UN estimates that one third to one half of Nicaraguan women have suffered domestic violence in their lifetimes. New laws have been passed to protect women, but activists say that many […]
PeaceWorks Raises $2300 at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship Alternative Holiday Fair
Thank you to all of the volunteers who came out to help PeaceWorks this December 2nd-4th at The Morristown Unitarian Fellowship’s 13th annual “Gifts of conscience” holiday fair. People were in the […]
December 10th Holiday Party
Help us spread the holiday cheer and launch PeaceWorks into its next 25 years of people to people work in Nicaragua. Catch up with friends, enjoy a great meal and […]
A huge thanks to our volunteers! We prepped over 50 boxes for the May 2017 Aid Shipment to Nicaragua
A huge thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday December 3rd to help us pack for our 71st humanitarian aid shipment to Nicaragua. We were getting ready for […]
Nov. 12th Dinner Forum: U.S.-Latin America Relations & Trump
What will foreign policy in Nicaragua look like in a Clinton Trump administration? When we sent out the PeaceWorks newsletter earlier this week, we had not imagined (or let ourselves […]
