Our Home in El Salvador

For more than ten years OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS have been present in El Salvador. Father Wasson founded the children’s village in 1999 and today we already have 446 children and adolescents living here. Our fosterlings as well as children living outside of the home are regularly examined and treated at our two clinics.

Why your support is so important:

• More than one third of the population lives on less than two Euros a day
• In El Salvador, the infant death rate before the age of five is six times as high as in Germany
• Public hospitals can only offer nine beds for every 10,000 people*

In the smallest country of Central America in respect to area, high unemployment and low wages are raging. Numerous children die every year due to contaminated water and lack of medical care.

*Source: World Bank, World Health Organization

Our facilities and programs:

• Facilities at the children’s village „Ciudadela Sagrada Familia“ in Texistepeque:
  • HOUSES – Babies’ house „Casa Niño Jesus“, girls’ house „Casa Santa Maria“ and boys’ house „Casa San José“
  • PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • VOCACIONAL WORKSHOPS – Training courses in the fields of bakery trade, tailoring, cabinetmaking and accounting
  • CLINIC – Internal and external practice, pediatric ward, physiotherapy and dental ward; a pediatrician visits two times a week and examines the toddlers
  • AGRICULTURE - Vegetable-, corn- and rice-growing
• Facilities in Santa Ana:
  • DORMITORY – For high school and university students
• Special Programs:
  • „EDÚCAME"-PROGRAM - Program initiated by the Department of Education to shorten school time
• Neighborly help:
  • MEDICAL CARE - In our external clinic, we regularly examine and treat children and adolescents from the neighborhood as well

More children’s villages by OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS: