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Valle Nuevo Land Project Final Report
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Many individuals from diverse faith communities in the United States have supported land purchase and titling in the community of Valle Nuevo, Cabañas, El Salvador since 1992. After 17 years, over $100,000 and many challenging and inspiring experiences with the people of Valle Nuevo and communities in the U.S., we have wrapped up CoCoDA's cooperation in the Valle Nuevo Land Project.
Our final report includes a recent report by Vilma Recinos, a resident of Valle Nuevo, long-time reporter with Radio Victoria and journalism student at the Jesuit Central American University (UCA). As she reports, Valle Nuevo is now working on the parceling of its agricultural lands and anticipates transferring titles to 172 families in 2010.
Shalom Mission Communities, a U.S. network of faith-based communities, is raising money to support Valle Nuevo in this final push. For more information on their effort, you can contact Anali Gatlin at anali.gatlin@gmail.com.
CoCoDA Wraps Up Youth Leadership Campaign
(May, 2009)
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Nearly 200 contributors to CoCoDA’s Youth Leadership Campaign funded $65,000 in grants over the past five years (2004-09) to the Salvadoran organizations ADES and the CRC, helping establish scholarship and leadership programs in rural communities of Santa Marta and Suchitoto respectively.
Both programs combine standards of academic achievement with student involvement in their community. In Suchitoto, students come from communities scattered across the valley of Guazapa. They meet four times per year with the CRC scholarship committee to evaluate academic performance. Throughout the year they participate in youth-led economic projects and other activities in their fields of interest, such as the community radio station, Radio Suchitlán.
Beneficiaries of the Santa Marta program are university-level students, graduates of the Santa Marta high school. ADES funds two houses in the city where the students live during the week, then most weekends return to Santa Marta and participate in community activities. The students as a group evaluate their own academic performance and engage others in the community in interdisciplinary forums. They publish a newsletter on local and national issues (available by email) and produce a weekly radio program among other activities.
The end of CoCoDA’s Youth Leadership Campaign will put more pressure on the CRC and ADES to devise long-term fundraising strategies for their student programs. For information about supporting their efforts directly, contact CoCoDA at cocodaindy@igc.org.
Additional Information:
The final report of this campaign can be found here.
More information about Santa Marta youth leadership can be found at their website:
Santa Marta Computer Center
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Achieved Objectives:
- Provide Youth in Santa Marta with Free Computer Training
- Provide the Center with at least 20 working computers
- Connect Center to Internet
- Provide means for interactive virtual exchanges between the Center & groups in the U.S.
- Support the Administration of the school
- Educate people in the U.S. about the realities in El Salvador and the lack of access to technology in a world ever more globalized
- Support Teacher to keep Center opened
- Work towards self-sustainability
Remaining Objectives:
- Get paid position for instructor from the EDUCO program
- Be able to provide high school technical degree
- Get INSAFORP funding
Last Revised on 21 February, 2010