This past month of August, Allen, originally from Ohio and recently moved to Oregon, spent four days in Northern Morazán. His interest was to learn about the struggles of people that have disabilities as he himself was born to a wheelchair. Allen and I spent a large portion of our time with the war veterans [...]

Atilio and Neftali began planting their corn field last week, now that winter is finally here and rain falls every day. Many people planted the first week of May after the first heavy rains began, yet were faced with a drought of almost two weeks. They had to wait until the rain came again in [...]

On Thursday morning, I visited the community of San Francisco, in cantón el Volcancillo, municipality of Jocoatique. I visited Atilio, a member of the board of ALGES Jocoatique. He lives with his wife and six children (three boys and three girls) right on the 10 kilometer long road that goes from the highway to Perquín [...]

A few members of the Board came down to visit partner communities in El Salvador last week. We went to the Bajo Lempa, San Salvador and Comunidad Segundo Montes. Voices team met with various NGOs and partner organizations in CSM such as the Pastoral Team, OSCA and ALGES. They also saw the Steven Cagan pictures [...]

ALGES has started a project on a national level. It is funded by the organization called Peace wtih Dignity. The project is attached in this entry!

Hello everyone! I am back. I went on a three week trip to the United States and when I arrived back to El Salvador, Rosie and I hosted mini delegations for the following few weeks. I was so happy to have two youth from the Charlotte area come and visit El Salvador and the CSM [...]

“Regional Health Alliance of Morazán” (Alianza) Alianza was developed to find alternative solutions to problems concerning health for Salvadorans. There are representatives from organized communities, NGOs, local government and community leaders from the north of Morazán. Alianza wants to include the right to health in public policies to contribute to the quality of life of [...]

On the second Sunday of every month, the Morazán branch of ALGES holds a departmental meeting in the office in San Luis, Meanguera. Meetings last from 8am until 12pm. The Directive Board of Morazán, elected every three years, organizes and runs the meeting along with participation of ALGES Morazán members. Members that don’t attend the [...]

Today members of ALGES met in the Communal House of Torola in Morazan. Torola is said to be the municipality of El Salvador with the highest rates of people living in extreme poverty. Present at the meeting was Aurelio from Radio Segundo Montes (RSM) who broadcasted interviews from members at the event on the radio [...]

The School of Leadership was started by ALGES with 15 companeros and companeras that have continued their training this year. The compas are motivated and active. They have already had many experiences of learning new tools that facilitate the organized work in each of the departments. During the first trimester of this year, they have [...]