For the last five years El Salvador has been affected by drastic changes in weather conditions ranging from droughts to tropical depressions. During rainy seasons heavy rains and major landslides have caused many human casualties and severe devastation to entire regions, destroying houses and staple crops in poor communities.

At the beginning of October 2003, heavy rains, landslides and flooding resulted in the evacuation of several thousand people in the capital San Salvador and in the western department of Sonsonate and San Vicente, in the central part of the country. The flooding has destroyed or damaged hundreds of houses in poor communities in various areas of San Salvador, sweeping away homes and possessions.

On 6 October 2003, torrents of rainwater caused massive landslides around Lempita Creek in the town of San Benito, Piedra Gorda, where Guadalupe city municipal landfill is located. As the land opened and moved, an enormous landslide of mud and garbage came loose and overran an agricultural zone and buried houses that were in its path. ACT member the Salvadoran Lutheran Synod (SLS) is proposing to assist 200 affected families of San Benito, Piedra Gorda with Community Health, Environmental Education and Risk Management, Water and Sanitation and Advocacy activities. For the sake of brevity this revision comprises the SLS proposal only. To view the Lutheran World Federation, Department of World Service, El Salvador and the Diakonie Emergency Aid proposals which remain unchanged, please refer to the original appeal of 17 October 2003.

Project Completion Date:

30 September 2004

Signed by:
Thor-Arne Prois, ACT Director

For full details of proposals and budgets, please click below to download a PDF file of the entire Appeal.

El Salvador - Emergency Relief to Victims of Floods & Landslides, REVISION 1 - LASA31 (file size: 42 Kb)

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