Geoff Herzog, the Voices on the Border El Salvador Country Director, will setup and lead the delegation and do the translation. Pictures, Sounds and Stories From Past Delegations Everyone has seen the horrific images of the devestating earthquakes that struck El Salvador. Members of our delgation visited the site of the landslide that destroyed dozens of homes, killing hundreds if not thousands of people. Luxury homes had been build at the top of the hill, making the hill unstable. Despite protests by the people who had homes where our delegation's feet now stand, the government allowed the construction.
Today there is dirt where houses used to stand.
We have a page dedicated to earthquake information. Click here to visit that page. Plastic shacks provide temporary shelter today. Hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed by this earthquake. Although they had originally agreed to allow displaced families to live on their vacant land, wealthy landowners refused to allow these shacks to remain, forcing families to move into the rubble of the city.