Tag Archives: Austin Committee

2021 Scholarship program in San Vicente – Las becas 2021 en San Vicente

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Today, the first assembly with the highschool scholarship recipients from San Vicente was held. This group of young people will receive financial support to buy materials and to purchase credit for their online studies. In this first assembly they decided the dates of the assemblies for the rest of the semester […]

2020 Scholarship recipients / Becarias y becarios de 2020 en San Vicente

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Today, a new group of young people signed an agreement with the scholarship program of CRIPDES San Vicente. These young folks were chosen by the community boards to receive a partial scholarship that will help them to finish their high school, this is specially important this year when the school packages […]

Supporting Guajoyo

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Last march, the delegation from Austin visited Guajoyo and ran into their annual sad tradition: fighting wildfires. Guajoyo and the neighbor communities got together to fight it without a quick response from firefighters, the municipality of Tecoluca or the Government’s office of civil protection.     This is a reality they […]

Midyear review with scholarship recipients / evaluación de medio año del programa de becas en San Vicente

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last thursday, Alfredo Lopez, youth promoter in CRIPDES San Vicente, led another workshop with the beneficiaries of the scholarship program. Since this was the midyear session, they took the opportunity to evaluate the work done so far. There was a summary of the lessons learned and the promoter asked for feedback from […]

Letrinas en Guajoyo /Latrines in Guajoyo

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Our sistering promoter in San Vicente, Lurvi, informed us yesterday that Guajoyo is about to complete the building of more than 20 latrines in the community. This project is financed by the Austin committee. The other pending project for this year is putting up a structure to hold the water tank for […]

Guajoyo by Gustavo / Guajoyo por Gustavo

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Last weekend the Austin committee visited its sister comunity, Guajoyo, in San Vicente. There we had an exchange with two members of the community Santa Monica, organized by CRIPDES regional office in San Vicente, to learn about their experience with water projects and handling its scarcity. New visitors got to meet […]

New scholarship recipients in San Vicente / Nuevas becarias y becarios en San Vicente

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Yesterday, new young men and women attended Cripdes San Vicente’s meeting to become new scholarship recipients. They are taking the places of those who graduated last year. They were accompanied by their relatives and, in some cases, by community board members. The three of them signed an agreement that states that […]

Last assembly of 2018 in San Vicente / Asamblea final de 2018

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Yesterday, Alfredo Lopez facilitated the last assembly for the scholarship recipients of San Vicente. Besides evaluating the second semester of the year, they created groups in which the attendees (alongside parents or responsible persons) gave their opinions on the positive and negative aspects, things to improve and lessons learned. Thirteen of […]

Sheryl Sherman on her trip to Guajoyo / Sheryl Sherman sobre su visita a Guajoyo

(En español abajo)   I am now ten days back from the recent Guajoyo-Austin delegation trip. And though back into a routine here, I find myself thinking often of the visit and the wonderful people of El Salvador. I am very thankful to Mario Guevara, of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities and Lurvi of CRIPDES. The […]

Lacking water in Guajoyo – La escasez de agua en Guajoyo

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The Austin delegation visited the community of Guajoyo. Jennifer Long, Sheryl Sherman, Miriam Fiorentino and Robert Gibbons had the opportunity to accompany the water committee and see how water springs have or are drying out.     They are relying on a secondary pipe to fill the tank that benefits approximately 3200 people […]