Radio Victoria Property Purchase and Building Improvements
Ciudad Victoria, Cabañas
El Salvador

The Radio Victoria house in Ciudad Victoria, Cabañas, purchased with combined grant-loan financing from Equity Trust, Inc., based in Voluntown, Connecticut. (2002 photo)

Improvements being done to the Radio Victoria house funded mostly with a grant from Equity Trust. (2002 photo)

 

 

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El Picacho Land Project Valle Nuevo
Cabañas El Salvador

Juvenal, a popular teacher from Valle Nuevo, Cabañas, volunteered with other young leaders to participate in a Land Commission to help re-organize community discussions for titling the Picacho community land, a problematic issue in the community since 1993. Here Juvenal presents results of neighborhood meetings at a community assembly meeting. (2001 photo)

Margarita (left), Salome (second left) and María (far right) participate in a meeting with Benjamín, a consultant from the popular education foundation CIAZO, prepare for community assemblies to take the final votes for how to title and distribute the Picacho land. (2001 photo)

Residents of one of Valle Nuevo's neighborhoods discuss options for titling the Picacho land during neighborhood consultations. (1999 photo)

Members of the new community council (Junta Directiva) of Valle Nuevo review the census of families to receive plots from the Picacho land. (2002 photo).

Cleofas (left), one of the two signatories on the original title of the Picacho land, with Chuck Matthei, founder and director of Equity Trust, which funded the consultation on titling the Picacho land from 1999 through 2001. Chuck passed away due to an extended illness in 2002. (photo 1999).

 

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Santa Teresita Girls School Property Purchase
Sensuntepeque, Cabañas
El Salvador

Ana Mercedes Rivas (green shirt), CoCoDA's attorney in El Salvador, meets with representatives of the Santa Teresita Girls School in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas to finalize terms of an Equity Trust loan to purchase the lot next to the school for expansion of classrooms. (2001 photos)