El Salvador Project
The El Salvador Reconstruction and Development Project is a charitable volunteer project from
Team leadership and student involvement interchange on an annual basis with the start of a new academic year. The project is supported by a board of Alumni members.
History
As a result of the large magnitude
Students from several universities and disciplines have travelled along to El Salvador and worked with the relevant community for 5 to 7 weeks on various development projects. The typical student intake over a particular year varies between 11-13.
Communities helped by the El Salvador Project: Estanzuelas, Usulután (2002), San Emigdio, La Paz (2003, 2004, 2005), Santa Marta, San Vicente (2006, 2007), Colima, Cuscatlán (2009)
Finance
The project receives most of its finance from company sponsors. From the appointment of a particular year's members to the end of the relevant academic year the student body is further involved in fundraising events, which in the past has included evening sales and a marathon style run in the Netherlands. On 17 April 2009 the project competed in the
On 2 December 2009 the project secured a further $15,000 from JP Morgan's online global Give-it-Away competition.[3]
2009 Project
This year's project was based in the community of
Future activities
In association with the
In reaction to the floods and landslides in November 2009 that left at least 192 people dead,[5] REDES will likely be appointing a specifically badly struck geographical entity for consideration under the 2010 project.
Plans for future improvement that are currently awaiting approval include the expansion of a particular year's activities to cover more than one community, spreading out the construction work by sending over teams outside the summer term period and expansion of the concept of the project to cover communities in the neighbouring countries of Guatemala and Honduras.
2014 Project
The 2014 project will involve the project team travelling to Guatemala for the first time. A house design developed in conjunction with Arup will be tested on an earthquake simulator at the
References
- ^ ReliefWeb - El Salvador Earthquake: Emergency Update 02 Feb 2001
- ^ JP Morgan - Good Venture Case Competition Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ JP Morgan - Give-it-Away Competition Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The El Salvador earthquakes of January and February 2001: context, characteristics and implications for seismic risk
- ^ 192 dead in El Salvador mudslides