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Sombrilla Fostering Partnerships for Social Justice fosteringpartnerships for social justice Empowering Communities in Latin America Sombrilla partners with communities in Latin America to empower them to assert their democratic economic cultural and social rights. We strive to improve quality of life by addressing needs such as food security clean water health care and education so that communities may become selfsustaining. In Canada Sombrilla implements a public engagement strategy with two main objectives the first focuses on presenting the Canadian public with the issues resonating from Latin America and the Global South in an effort to develop basic awareness. Secondly the strategy attempts to move from this basic awareness to the involvement of groups and individuals in organized action in support of communities in Latin America.