All stories related to 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
El Salvador: rice for life
Mar 08, 2010
Teaching organic rice-growing is helping El Salvadorians replenish their diets.
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
- Bread for the World
- Christian Aid
- Christian World Service
- Church of Sweden
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- ICCO
- Kerk In Actie
- Lutheran World Relief
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Presbyterian World Service & Development
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The
- United Church of Canada
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)