FSM agronomist Carlos Diaz is working to create a fruit tree nursery with students ranging from the fourth grade until high school. The students come from 10 different schools throughout the two municipalities of Meanguera and Jocoaitique. Most of the students involved in the creating the nursery are already organized in environmental groups called ‘Guardianes [...]

The rains have stopped but the damage from the more than week-long deluge remains. Yesterday 35 volunteer community members from the department of Morazán made the trip to Nueva Esperanza in the department of Usulután, spending the entire day engaged in heavy-duty cleaning. Among the volunteers were OSCA youth group members as well as pastoral [...]

The colonia or neighborhood, where I have been living for the past ten months is continuing their education in the separation of trash into compostable and non-compostable items. The majority of the families in San Luis II have passed through various informational and participative workshops on the benefits of recycling and environmental health. These workshops [...]

Community members of San Luis II are in preparation to become environmentalists, or at least to become more aware of where their trash goes once it is collected twice a week by the local government. About 35 members from San Luis II took a tour of the recycling center and landfill that serves the two [...]

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 [...]

The ManCo is an NGO that started on Feburary 26, 1999 to manage the water project in Municipals of Torola, Meanguera and Jocoaitique. They rent space in a building located in San Luis. The building is shared by Mami (who teaches music classes), the Meanguera Mayoral council who use the space for meetings, and the [...]

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