El Salvador
ACT members provide nutrition projects to encourage people to improve their home gardens. They also teach the growing of crops that withstand the changing climate, and programmes to strengthen democracy, disaster preparedness and disaster warning programmes. ACT members are currently responding to floods and landslides caused by Hurricane Ida in November 2009. Their actions include food security, psychosocial care and housing rehabilitation in the provinces and municipalities of San Salvador, La Libertad, La Paz, San Vicente, Cuscatlán, Usulután, Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.
Latest from El Salvador
El Salvador: two weeks after the storm
Nov 07, 2011
El Salvador, two weeks after Storm 12E: "There is nobody who has not suffered"
El Salvador: death toll from torrential rains rises
Oct 17, 2011
Disaster “potentially on the scale of Hurricane Mitch”
Central America: Agatha's destruction
Jun 07, 2010
ACT Alliance emergency workers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are struggling to get aid to communities cut off by Tropical Storm Agatha