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Sustainable development requires action on climate change
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the floods in El Salvador – indeed, the UN are calling it “one of the greatest disasters” in the country’s history.
Personal Experience: Virginia López Tito
What is your work background?
I am a nurse, and whenever I get the chance I am happy to tell people as I love what I do. Before becoming a development worker, I worked in different hospitals and different areas of nursing. I wanted to make a change in my personal and working life, so I applied for this placement in health education.
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El Salvador: Volunteers help with the emergency response
Whilst we where staying at the hotel, UNES, our partner organisation, mobilised and had supplies shipped in to be sorted and distributed to the shelters around San Salvador. We got involved and for the first time, for myself anyway I felt like I was positively impacting the current situation of this vulnerable country.
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El Salvador: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
Admittedly John Lennon (quoted in the title) was my least favorite member of The Beatles but this week I believe that this quote has been proven to be true time and again. The plan was to leave Suchitoto (El Salvador) and stay at an organization called CBC (Centro Bartolome de las Casas) where we would stay for one day and then jog on to San Julian, the location of our first placement.
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Central America storm: The poorest are hit the hardest
Progressio development worker Maggie von Vogt has seen for herself the devastating impacts of the heavy rain that’s hit Central America this last week.
And in a hard-hitting interview broadcast today on BBC Radio 5 Live, she talks about how it’s the poor who are hit the hardest – and how the people of El Salvador and Central America have had enough of bearing the brunt of the impacts of climate change.
Tropical Storm 12E hits hard in Central America
We have been deeply concerned to hear of the impact of heavy rains and flooding across Central America, especially Progressio’s programme areas of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
In El Salvador, 20,000 people are reported as displaced due to the situation. Xiomara Ventura, Progressio’s Regional Representative in Central America, writes, “Honduras is on red alert in the south and west. There are forty people dead, about thirty-five thousand affected families, productive land damaged and infrastructure flooded.” Communities that Progressio works with are directly affected.
El Salvador: murals, schools and gangs
I think it’s about time I gave you all an update on what we have been doing in San Salvador!
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Put yourself in Angel's shoes...
Why would an otherwise fun-loving sixteen year old boy skip school football lessons? Lily Bland, writing from El Salvador, explains...
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El Salvador: environmentalism in action
I wasn’t sure what this blog's theme would be, I intended to just update you on the week’s activities but it seems to have evolved into a blog about the environment.
Climate change mural
After being ill, I got back to work on Wednesday, where we finished the climate change mural in the school. I painted a few flowers – I was afraid to do anything important and mess it up as it looked really good.
But as usual in El Salvador, “Latin American timing” (of always being late) meant that we had to wait four hours in the rain for a lift home!
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