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Current Projects:
The families of San Diego de Tenango have undergone a long, arduous, but faithful journey. Displaced during El Salvador’s civil war, they became refugees in Honduran camps. Eventually they rented farmland in Tenango and then in 2000, partnered with the Agros Foundation and received land loans and agrictultural training.
UPC partnered with Agros’ Journey with a Village program to help Tenango families build infrastructure secure land ownership, and obtain water and housing. Team members have helped to construct a community center, roads, composting latrines, stream culvets and a water line.
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El Salvador:
Size- 8124 square miles, slightly smaller than the state of Massachusetts.
Population- 6.5 million (densely populated)
Religion- predominately Roman Catholic
Government- El Salvador is a democratic republic. Since 1992 the country has been recovering from a brutal 12-year civil war, which displaced many rural people to Honduran refugee camps.
Economy- Major export is coffee, also sugar, cotton and shrimp. Agriculture employs 30% of the population.
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