
International Accompaniment in Guatemala: A Journey
by
Patrick
on Sun 02 Apr 2006 09:41 AM BST

GSN member Rosemary Burnett, talks her about her work as an international accompanier in Guatemala on
Radio Scotland.
She describes how she got involved, the plight of the witnesses to the
genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s and everyday life volunteering in
ACOGUATE, the Guatemala Accompaniment Programme. Rosemary has written
about her experiences in a book Disentangling the Knots, you can
get a copy from here.
Mark Stephen talks to people about personal journeys which have had a
profound effect on their lives. This week Mark meets Rosemary Burnett,
the Programme Director for
Amnesty International in Scotland. In October 2003, Rosemary left Edinburgh, and her life there, to travel
to Guatemala where she lived and worked for a year as an
International
Accompanier.
You can listen to Rosemary's interview on Radio Scotland here. Unfortunately the BBC takes most of its programmes offline after seven days.