Category Archives: Sister Cities

Regional Update: Cinquera – April 27, 2007

  April 27, 2007 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #5     Introduction:    This is the fifth in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera.  The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, […]

Communities Protest Mining Impacts Study, January 10 2007

Chalatenango and Morazan Communities Protest Mining Companies´ Environmental Impacts Study   By Sebastián Darío January 10th, 2007   San Salvador—Busloads of citizens from mining affected zones of the Chalatenango and Morazan provinces gathered outside the offices of the Salvadoran Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources yesterday to protest the request for environmental permission to […]

Update from Cinquera, February 2, 2006

February 2, 2006 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #3     Introduction:    This is the third in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera.  The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has […]

CRIPDES, our Sister Organization in El Salvador

Sister Cities is proud to work directly with the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. Formerly the Christian Committee of the Displaced, CRIPDES was founded in 1984 to support people displaced by the Salvadoran civil war as they […]

San Vicente Scholarship Program Update, September 6 2006

CRIPDES San Vicente held its monthly Scholarship Student Program Assembly the 25th of August. Currently there are 19 scholarship students participating in the program, from the communities of San Bartolo, Guajoyo, Las Anonas, La Ceiba, amongst others. Sister Cities, through the support of the Philadelphia and Austin Committees, supports 14 of these scholarship students, with […]