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Help fight poverty in rural El Salvador

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Summary

Help over 35,000 residents of 92 rural communities in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador by providing strategic capacity building, board training, infrastructure assessments, and technical support.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Rural communities in El Salvador continue to face the enduring challenges of poverty, flooding disasters, and a lack of infrastructure and basic resources. Through a collaborative partnership, students travel to the Bajo Lempa region and help communities accomplish self-prescribed goals of economic self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation.

Activities

Your help enables students to provide key technical assistance, such as board training, data capture and analysis, and insfrastructure assessements to help communities advance goals of poverty alleviation and economic self-sufficiency.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $210
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,220
Total Funding Goal: $5,430

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Through a continued partnership with Team Monterey, over 92 communities in rural El Salvador will make significant progress against poverty and successfully advance toward sustained economic self-sufficiency and growth.

Project Message

I feel that this (MOU signing) is the only way that we can unite and prosper, in the development of the communities which is something that is greatly needed to progress against the poverty we face.
- Maria Elena, Community Member, Board Member, LC-AM

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Amy Holste

2001 David Avenue
Unit B
Monterey, CA 93940
United States
(415)272-9524
Email:

Organization

Monterey Institute of International Studies Logo

Monterey Institute of International Studies
460 Pierce Street
Monterey, CA 93940
United States

Learn more about Monterey Institute of International Studies and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in El SalvadorEl Salvador and can also be found under Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development.

For more information about El Salvador, read the Human Development Report on El Salvador or the Wikipedia entry for El Salvador.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 14, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 23, 2009

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