Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is helping to provide support for 14,550 families. The Reformed Church is a part of the ACT alliance of responders. The initial funds were used to provide emergency food and shelter to disaster survivors. The current response includes the continued provision of food and shelter through distribution of Emergency Support Packages. A basic package contains corn flour, sugar, powdered milk, and a heavy duty plastic bag for carrying water.
Some families also receive additional foodstuffs and tools.
As the emergency phase ends, the church's programs and work are beginning to return to some normalcy and thoughts are turning to reconstruction. The vision of reconstruction must be one of both development and prevention. We dare not reconstruct the misery and poverty in which the communities lived before the earthquake. This reconstruction must include attention to basic production with radical changes in the current agricultural methods . To this end the church has entered into conversations with several agricultural groups in El Salvador seeking to develop a strong and integrated approach to land conservation and restoration as part of the rebuilding.