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Since 1987, Voices on the Border, a national grassroots network of individuals and groups in the United States, has responded to the needs of organized communities and progressive groups in El Salvador.  We facilitate the "partnering" of U.S. donors and community groups with local communities in El Salvador; help fund grassroots groups; and promote sustainable, equitable community-based development.

Our work has focused on the eastern region of El Salvador, historically one of the poorest and most neglected regions, and one of the areas hardest hit by El Salvador's civil war, which ended in 1992.  We began as a campaign to support the needs of 8,000 refugees from this area, then living in a Honduran border camp.  In 1989 and 1990 they returned to El Salvador.  Voices on the Border accompanied them as they returned and continued to support communities of returning refugees as the war ended and reconstruction began.  The process of re-building a new El Salvador based on peace, equality, and justice continues.

Thirteen Peaceful Protesters Charged with Acts of Terrorism

Take Action to Protect Civil Liberties in El Salvador!

 

Community Updates

July 2007

 

Voices on the Border Annual Report 2006

Available online now.

 

El Salvador Update: May Day, Scandals, Youth Organizing, and More!

May 2, 2007

 

Hungry for Justice

Immigrants in Washington, DC Fast for An End to Deportations

April 30, 2007

 

Mega Projects for Mega Capital

A Report by Voices on the Border on the construction of dams and highways, and the slow privatization of water, April 2007

 

Rufina Amaya, ¡Presente!

RufinaTwenty-five years after the El Mozote massacre of which she was the sole survivor, Rufina Amaya passed away.  After losing her family and everyone she knew, she spent the next quarter-century telling the story so it would be not forgotten.  Read about Rufina in this memory by EPICA's Scott Wright, who knew her well.

(Watercolor illustration by Mary Lee Barker, Voices member.)

 

Reflections on the January 2007 Delegation

DelIt has been 15 years since the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords. What has changed? What hasn't? Those questions and more were asked at the recent delegation to El Salvador.

2006 Year in Review

A look at the projects, news, and accomplishments from Voices communities for the past year. January 22, 2007

To Slow Immigration From El Salvador, Understand Its Causes

Article by Voices Director published in the Baltimore Sun highlights the root causes of immigration to the United States by bringing attention to Salvadoran issues. January 11, 2007

International Aid to El Salvador

An overview by Voices staff of the sources of international aid money for El Salvador, what projects are funded, and concerns over the effectiveness of such aid. January, 2007

Mining Operations in El Salvador

An introduction by Voices staff to mining in El Salvador, the foreign corporations involved, and the effects this industry has on the land and people of El Salvador. January, 2007

Police Repression at the University

Called the Worst Human Rights Abuse Since the Peace Accords, July 5, 2006