This past week, seven youth participants from the two departments of Usulután and Morazán participated in a week long seminar on ‘Democracy and Youth.’ The seminar was organized by Voices on the Border and included dialoguing with: -a representative from the online newspaper, El Faro -the Magistrate Florentine Melendez -a representative from the Social Initiative [...]

This January, community members from the municipality of Cacaopera commemorated the 33rdanniversary of the murder of Octavio Ortiz Luna, a Roman Catholic priest who was assassinated on January 20, 1979. Born to peasant parents, Fr. Ortiz was born on March 22, 1944 in a town called Agua Blanca in the Municipality of Cacaopera, in the [...]

On January 13th, Segundo Montes inaugurated the Center for Documentation and Technological Exhibition for Food Security (CEDESAN) in the colonia of San Luis, municipality of Meanguera. The Center is organized by PRESANCA, who according to their website, strives to reduce food and nutritional insecurity in vulnerable populations in Central America. PRESANCA is financed by the [...]

Youth Exchange On January 15th, the National Youth Commission (CONJUVE) organized a camping trip for youth in commemoration of the 20 years since the signing of the Peace Accords. Youth participants came from the different departments of Morazán, San Miguel, San Salvador, and Sonsonate. The following day of January 16th the youth delegation migrated to [...]

The University of El Salvador (UES) is performing a study to verify the feasibility of establishing an Institute for Applied Science and Technology (INCTAUES) in the five departments of Morazán, Chalatenango, Cabañas, Ahuachapán and Usulután. The intellectual authors of the INCTAUES envision the educational centers as stepping stones to university education, creating an intermediary nexus [...]

On January 12th, 27 youth from throughout the department of Morazán (residents from the municipalities of Lolotiquillo, San Francisco de Gotera, Jocoaitique, Meanguera, Osicala, Chilanga, and Cacaopera) celebrated their graduation from an electrician’s seminar. As an effort to prepare youth for insertion into the labor force, the workshops covered both theoretical as well as practical [...]

Bartholet, Assistant Pastor at St. Peters Church, visited Comunidad Segundo Montes in the hopes of strengthening the sisterhood relationship that St.Peters has held with the Community. Mark met with the Pastoral Committee and the OSCA youth group. He also visited the massacre site at El Mozote and the Technological Institute in San Luis.    

Community members of Northern Morazán are mourning over the death of a twenty-two year old university scholarship student as she was on her way to meet her fellow students at an end-of-the-year camping trip. On December 28th, Patricia Isabel Berrios Hernandez was waiting on the side of the road for public transportation to take her [...]