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

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

El Salvador: death toll from torrential rains rises

Oct 17, 2011

Disaster “potentially on the scale of Hurricane Mitch”

Central America: Agatha's destruction

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

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ACT in El Salvador

ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.

Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups

Organisations with HQ in El Salvador
International organisations in El Salvador
Organisations funding work in El Salvador
About El Salvador
  • Population: 6.2 million (UN, 2009)
  • Capital: San Salvador
  • Area: 21,041 sq km (8,124 sq miles)
  • Major language: Spanish
  • Major religion: Christianity
  • Life expectancy: 67 years (men), 76 years (women) (UN)
  • Monetary unit: US dollar & Salvadoran colon
  • Main exports: Offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, shrimp, textiles, chemicals, electricity
  • GNI per capita: US $3,480 (World Bank, 2007)