Project Salvador
Delegations
As part of our mission to create an awareness of the plight of the poor and marginalized in Central America, Project Salvador conducts delegations of interested individuals or groups to El Salvador. In the past these delegations have consisted of high school and college students as well as interested adults. Delegations spend approximately ten days in El Salvador visiting communities and organizations currently receiving financial support from Project Salvador.Typically, delegations visit with members of craft cooperatives, scholarship students, health providers, and community and project members. We also meet with university professors, community leaders and church workers. We visit folks in the city and in the countryside, and are welcomed into their communities and homes. Delegates have the opportunity to hear first hand the stories of people working under impossible hardship; desperate to just live let alone live lives of meaning and dignity. Working side by side with local farmers and laborers, even for a few days, it is possible to gain insight into the difficulties of life in emerging countries as well as the immediate effects, intended and unintended, of government policies initiated in distant capitals. Delegates find that the relationships fostered by these experiences also make it possible to gain insight into their own attempts to live lives of meaning and dignity.
Delegations are always under the direction of a bilingual coordinator with experience living and working in El Salvador. The coordinator(s) arrange in-country transportation, learning experiences, accommodations, and meals. Groups are small—usually fewer than fifteen people.
Interested individuals are welcome to join upcoming groups as they are formed, or Project Salvador can develop a delegation experience to meet the needs of your group or organization.
