SALVADOREAN HUMANITARIAN AID RESEARC & EDUC THE SHARE FDN

Academic formation is the backbone of the sustainable development of communities and the country; the goal of this project is to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the rural communities through the academic formation and leadership training of their youth.
 
Through this program benefits more than 200 youth through scholarships, leadership development, and organizing. Youth receive training and support to facilitate literacy circles and lead youth organizing initiative within their communities. Monthly assemblies for trainings on issues including leadership, the national reality, history, public speaking, community organizing, and gender and sexuality. Support executing community work plans, created by scholarship students working with community councils and youth committees.

•The establishment of a diversified nursery on site at CIETTA (Center for Research, Experimentation and Agroecological Technology Transfer) resulting in successful production of 5,000 fruit trees of five native species for promoting food sovereignty and environmental sustainability.

Technical support and distribution of organic supplies to 2013 and 2014 participants for agroecological management of established fruit trees on their land. The 15,000 trees planted in 2013 and 2014 in cooperatives, teaching institutions, and municipalities of the paracentral region of the country will be checked for problems and treated if necessary.

Cooperatives and producers adopt theoretical and practical knowledge on agroecology to generate sustainable and diversified production. Men and women of 6 cooperatives are trained on establishment and agroecological management of fruit trees and fruit production. Students from 10 schools learn about the importance of the environment and how to properly care for the different varieties of fruit trees.

Partners and associates of cooperatives will be motivated and encouraged to participate in the preparation and processing of foods derived from locally produced fruits to strengthen the food sovereignty of communities. Working relationships will be formed with three municipalities to promote the recovery and preservation of natural resources

Children and young elementary school students in 10 schools will have the knowledge necessary to protect, conserve, and sustainably use natural resources in their communities and playgrounds with the addition of fruit trees.

Participation and involvement of municipal environmental units in promoting recovery and preservation of natural resources, to minimize impacts to the effects of climate change and strengthen the food sovereignty of communities in the area.

In 1989, SHARE counterpart the Committee of Family Members of the Disappeard (CODEFAM) “Marianella Garcia Villas,” founded the Center for Child Development “Guanaquitos,” a child care center and nursery school for children aged one through six. Originally founded for children affected by the civil war, Guaniquitos’ principal focus is on promoting children’s rights. This is done by working with teachers, parents, and the children themselves to put into practice respect for the rights laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children. Using techniques directed towards small children who do not yet read or write, SHARE’s project with Guanaquitos strives to promote a holistic education and empowerment of children in order to help form a new generation of citizens dedicated to equality, justice and their construction of peace in their society.

Community leaders with a strong social conscience and experience in community development receive university scholarships to contribute to the future well-being of their communities.

A unique Salvadoran organization, Equipo Maiz promotes popular education as a way to learn about key issues impacting El Salvador and many other Latin American countries. Popular education is an inclusive learning process that seeks to involve all participants as learners and teachers, address the issues people face in daily life, and develop grassroots leadership. Equipo Maíz started during the armed conflict to help Salvadorans make sense of what was happening around them.

Today, the members of Equipo Maiz use popular education to address complex every day issues in simple terms everyone can understand and use to join in the conversation. For many Salvadorans, accessing education in schools presents an economic challenge, and schools often do not address issues that Salvadorans face daily. With dynamic, participatory workshops on the Environment, Gender Equality, Citizen Participation, Historic Memory and Economic Literacy, Equipo Maiz is able to educate those with little access to formal education about important themes that affect Salvadorans today.

SHARE supports Equipo Maiz through an Economic Literacy project, is an effort to educate community leaders from all over Central America about issues including:

Globalization
Capitalism
CAFTA and Free Trade
Structural Adjustment Plan
Neo-liberalism
Labor Flexibility and Worker’s Rights

In September 2013, the Archbishop of San Salvador suddenly closed Tutela Legal, the Archdiocese´s human rights legal aid office, saying it no longer had a reason to exist. The victims Tutela Legal worked with raised an outcry, along with human rights organizations nationally and internationally – highlighting the ongoing deep need for truth and justice. Tutela Legal accompanied victims of horrendous human rights violations from its founding in 1983 until the moment of its closure, representing major cases of violation in national and international courts and promoting human rights education. The lawyers of Tutela Legal have founded a new, independent organization to carry on this work. Tutela Legal is one of eight member organizations of the Pro-Historical Memory Commission that struggle alongside the victims for justice

Twenty-two years after the Peace Accords and U.N. Truth Commission Report, Salvadorans struggle to build true peace in a society steeped in violence and impunity. While victims of human rights violations have worked tirelessly for truth, justice, and reparations, accompanied by the Pro-Historical Memory Commission, the current government has been the first to acknowledge and apologize for the active role of the government in repressing, disappearing, and massacring civilians, and to take initial steps towards reparations. The 1993 Amnesty law continues to block the road to justice.

In 2015, SHARE is supporting the committee of PROMEMORIA by organizing a tour to educate networks in the United States and to grow support for PROMEMORIA as a whole. SHARE is also supporting Maria Julia Tutela Legal to continue seeking truth, justice, and reparations for grave human rights violations that happened during the war and today.

Component 1: Implement a training and awareness program for adolescents in 9 schools and 1 inter-sectorial committee so that they have new knowledge aimed at the practice of the human rights of survival and growth, in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, culture of peace, psychosocial care, guidance for life, gender and equity, early pregnancies and public policies for children.

Component 2: Implementation of a pedagogical program of vocational training in 9 schools and one intersectoral committee to enable that adolescent girls with vocational knowledge that prepares them for life.

Component 3: Human resources coordinator and promoter in the CRIPDES San Vicente region executes planned actions focused on the 9 schools and one intersectoral committee of young adolescents in the municipality of Tecoluca.

The Cooperative Association for Provisions, Savings, Credit and Consumption of Women of the Bajo Lempa, known as the Mujeres Ganaderas, is a truly inspirational women’s cooperative made up of nearly 300 associates from 15 communities in the Bajo Lempa region. SHARE has supported this women’s cooperative since 2000 with technical and legal assistance and funds for microcredit and women’s leadership formation. In response to recent drought, with the support of LCWR, SHARE is able to provide financial assistance so that these women may purchase food for their cattle until the situation improves.