A people many who have great compassion and some with extreme selfishness. A country in economic ruin and despair that drifts again towards civil war and yet communities of empowerment and hope. At the base community level where poor are organized and decide their future, development occurs from the bottom up.
People maintain vision and hope in spite of national structural injustice.
They provide a hope for appropriate 3rd world development. Many positive things are being done by non governmental organizations. In Suchitoto, The Committee for the Defense of Women supports and defends women who have suffered and continue to suffer men's violence physical, sexual or psychological. They are attending and coordinating training and empowering themselves to legally denounce violence, demand child support and accompanying women in crisis. In and around El Salvador, Emmanual Baptist Church continues in ecumenical efforts to develop base communities.