Threads of Resilience: Salvadoran Stories Sewn in Honduran Exile presents embroidered textiles made by Salvadoran refugees to tell the story of their displacement, their lives in the Mesa Grande refugee camp in Honduras, and their return to El Salvador.
Upon hearing that Father Gerardo Pöter, a German Dominican priest who worked in the camp from 1983-1984, would be touring the United States and discussing the refugee situation, women in the camp made these tapestries to assist him in telling their story.
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