Our Region

Emergent Social Issues

• Textile Factories and Child Labor
  • El Salvador, especially the flat land region surrounding San Salvador, has become a hub for large textile and food production factories.  They utilize child labor and pay low-wages in order to produce profitable goods for western consumption.
• Natural Disasters
  • El Salvador has faced disastrous hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes in the last 10 years.  These natural disasters have crippled the economy and the people resulting in the need for basic development and community organization at a local level.
• Child Birth Education
  • Illiteracy and non-corroboration between hospitals and mid-wives has created a fatal system.  Rural woman and the urban poor are not offered necessary prenatal or maternal health care so that 1 in 290 women die in childbirth.