CIS year-end letter 2022

Wishing you and your families physical and mental health during this new year. We would like to thank you for the energy you have showed contributing to built a better world. We present you with the 2022 annual report letter. Once again thanks to all of our donors and people that contributed to make El Salvador a better place, nothing is possible without your constant support.


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Volunteer Point of View on The Clean Water and Environment Program

Three days after landing at the airport, I found myself in a truck driving through the beautiful mountains of El Salvador, sat next to Don Luis (my new program director) trying my hardest to communicate in broken Spanish about El Programa de Agua Limpia y Medio Ambiente. We were on our way to my first job in Apastepeque, apparently where they take all the volunteers on their first day for an easy introduction.

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CIS year-end letter 2021

Season’s Greetings from the CIS, wishing you and your families physical and mental health and energy to contribute to building a better world. We thank all of you who have continued providing solidarity to the people of El Salvador during the pandemic. We are writing with a brief update, our year-end report, and a request for your continued solidarity.

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CIS El Salvador
Housing for CIS University Scholarship Student 2021

We are grateful to many of you who support CIS scholarship and leadership development program through your church, community organization, foundation, academic institution, or directly to CIS. It is truly a miracle that students who are the first in their family and are from communities where no one had ever gone to university are graduating and making up the 4.6% of students in El Salvador who earn a university degree… I am asking you to give a special one-time contribution to expand our student housing program so that those most in need can graduate from university and bring their families out of poverty and become empowered leaders to work for change.

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CIS June 2021 Letter

Season’s Greetings from the CIS, wishing you and your families physical and mental health and energy to contribute to building a better world. We thank all of you who have continued providing solidarity to the people of El Salvador during the pandemic. We are writing with a brief update, our year-end report, and a request for your continued solidarity.

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CIS El Salvador
CIS year-end letter 2020

Season’s Greetings from the CIS, wishing you and your families physical and mental health and energy to contribute to building a better world. We thank all of you who have continued providing solidarity to the people of El Salvador during the pandemic. We are writing with a brief update, our year-end report, and a request for your continued solidarity.

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CIS El Salvador
Laptops and internet connect students to education!

Between July and October of 2020, the CIS distributed over 50 new laptop computers (with core i5 operating system), 17 internet subscriptions, seven antennas, and other accessories in 28 communities to enable underprivileged students to continue their education online, the only way it was being delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CIS El Salvador