Santa Marta Physical Rehabilitation Center - Construction
Santa Marta, Cabañas
El Salvador

Brenda Hubbard (left) is a coordinator of community health programs in the communities of Cantón Santa Marta, Cabañas with the Associación de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Santa Marta (ADES). She works with community residents in physical rehabilitation, environmental health, health education (with families as seen here), family planning and sex education with a youth program called CoCoSI, and advocacy with the Ministry of Health and community health promoters in providing affordable, basic health care services. (1999 photo)

René Beltran (left) with Brenda Hubbard in the Santa Marta Rehabilitation Center in Santa Marta, Cabañas. René provides manual therapy and physical rehabilitation services in the Center. They are seeking funding to train and hire a woman physical therapist from the community, to provide more services to women. (2000 photo)

Marina, Erundina, and Pati (left to right), community health promoters from Cantón Santa Marta, in the Santa Marta Health Clinic with a doctor from the Salvadoran Ministry of Health. Community health promoters provided the only health services in the first years after repatriating the communities of Santa Marta. The community raised money to building the clinic, then negotiated an agreement with the government to jointly operate the facility and provide health services to the local population. (2000 photo)

A CoCoDA delegation coordinated by Brenda Hubbard helped ADES and the communities of Santa Marta and Valle Nuevo get funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and CARE for a permanent potable water project which brought safe drinking water to homes in the region. (2002 photo)

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Community Health Programs in Northern Usulután
Northern Usulután

Dr. Rebecca Kragh (right) of Minnesota has lived and worked with residents in communities of northern Usulután, coordinating the community health programs of Emmanuel Baptist Church (IBE), based in San Salvador. (2000 photo)

Oscar Rodríguez (center), Director of Service and Development Ministries of Emmanuel Baptist Church (IBE) discusses the church's philosophy of supporting the self-development of rural communities in El Salvador. (2000 photo)

Residents of eight rural communities in northern Usulután work their volunteer shift to lay a gravity powered water line for a potable water project that now provides safe drinking water to their homes. CoCoDA and Emmanuel Baptist Church helped the communities secure funding for the project from the International Red Cross. (2000 photo)

Selling used glasses at a minimal price is part of the Emmanuel Baptist Community Health program in northern Usulután. In 2002, IBE sold 147 glasses in 2002 to residents of San Simon, San Benito, Mercedes Umaña.