Tag Archives: covid 19

15 dead and 143 people sick of COVID19 in a nursing home in El Salvador

(NOTICIA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI)   Out of the 220 older adults in the Sara Zaldívar nursing home, which is part of the care centers of the Salvadoran Institute for Comprehensive Rehabilitation (ISRI), 111 have been infected with Covid-19. This number represents 50% of the older adult population. In addition, 32 center employees have tested positive […]

Thanks for your support

Thanks to your contribution to our COVID19 fundraising, the CRIPDES Sur team was able to provide some relief to families before Amanda and Cristobal hit our vulnerable country. This weekend the Cripdes San Vicente started working to provide relief to families in that area as well:       Today, the CCR team in Chalatenango […]

No report about the IMF loan to El Salvador

El Faro has reported how the Salvadoran government never really listened to the Emergency Fund Committee before taking any economic action, which led to the civilian members’ resignation. Besides not knowing how 100,000 beneficiaries of the $300 donations were selected, another worrisome detail is the fact that the group did not participate in asking (and […]

Two pandemics in Jiquilisco

(ARTICULO DE GLENDA GIRON ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO EL 26 DE ABRIL DE 2020 POR “SÉPTIMO SENTIDO”)   In developed countries, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is related to pre-existent conditions, such as diabetes or hypertension. It means that the deterioration of the purifying function of the kidneys comes as a consequence of the previous failure of other […]

Community update 18-5-20

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Yesterday, our friends at Teosinte reported: “We are still locked up, with the new DUI measure (permission to move according to the last digit of your identity document), people go out in their vehicles and (for) the rest (…) there is an advantage, people come selling food suplies here and also […]

CRIPDES Sur helping thanks to you / El Sur ayuda gracias a su apoyo

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Thanks to the support we have received so far in our fundraising, CRIPDES SUR was able to distribute food to 250 families, some of them were already running out of them or they had not received any kind of state support as of today. If you’re still able to, we ask […]

CCR work featured on Diario Co-Latino

Even though we are facing a pandemic and uncertainty about Government policies, the CRIPDES branch in Chalatenango, CCR keeps working and Diario Co-Latino reports about it:   “I have learned to prepare the soil and organic fertilizer, and also to plant more crops. These are difficult times but with organic gardens, we have different leaves […]

Family discovers his relative’s corpse was handcuffed and showed signs of torture

(ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUI)   His name was Luis Iván Mejía Bonilla, he was 30 years old, and he was the father of a girl. His relatives, some of them living in the USA, were told by (salvadoran) authorities that they should go to the Santa Teresa Hospital. However, upon arrival, they were told the […]

UCA and other organizations resign from the Emergency fund created by Salvadoran Government

The Central American University (UCA) and four other institutions resigned from the Committee of the Emergency Fund, Recovery and Economic Reconstruction by COVID-19 set up by the Salvadoran Government. (X)   The National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of El Salvador; the Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development […]

Marianella update 12-5-20 (COVID19)

Melvin Menjivar, from the Marianella community shares a community update:   He says that most people are emotionally exhausted due to the lockdown. “Keeping a very similar daily routine is tough but people are doing their best effort”. When people get frustrated and wish to go visiting others, they are reminded that the goverment prohibits […]