El Salvador Zacamil Community Development Zacamil is a community composed of repatriated Salvadoran families who fled to Honduras during the civil war. It is never easy to pick up the pieces of life and living after the painful memories that have claimed lives of family and friends in a war. Infrastructure has been destroyed, communication disrupted, as well as personal property looted or burned.
Repatriation means that people have been brought to a new area to start all over.
The people of Zacamil had very little access to good education. Growing crops and raising livestock is their main source of income. Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Salvador is the local partner working with The Sharing Way to enable the community to develop holistically. The goal is to develop a participation process, which includes the women, in areas of education, organization and production. This will be done through literacy programs, vocational training, kitchen gardens and livestock rearing.