Flooding in partner community - Bajo Lempa, El Salvador
by Bianca Nguyen on October 14, 2011
One of GlobeMed's partner communities, Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, is experiencing major flooding, due to Hurricane Jova, which hit regions in Mexico, Central America and Southern Haiti on Thursday, October 13, 2011. In El Salvador, rivers have overflowed banks, destroying villages and prompting an evacuation of close to 4,000 people.
GlobeMed at Penn State, who is partnered with ACUDESBAL in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, has set up an emergency relief fund online where they will be accepting donations on behalf of ACUDESBAL to help Lower Lempa communities that have been heavily impacted by the rain and flooding. Please consider making a $20 donation, or as much as you can give at this time, and passing this on to friends and family:
Support ACUDESBAL's emergency relief work in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador
About ACUDESBAL After the civil war in El Salvador, all the poor farmers were given land, only to find out that the land allocated to them was in a flood zone. As a result, the leader of the farmers' army, Mario, started ACUDESBAL to provide the community with basic public health services. (So far everyone at ACUDESBAL is okay, but many in the community have been evacuated.)
GlobeMed at Penn State is partnered with ACUDESBAL (Intercommunal Association of Communities United for Social and Economic Development of Bajo Lempa), a grassroots organization working with 29 communities in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador. ACUDESBAL was formed in 1998 on the idea that the strength of a community working together is the way to achieve social, economic, political, and environmental justice; all of which are an important part of Bajo Lempa's history of civil war and devastating natural disasters.
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