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💪You want to change the world, but poverty and international development are complex.
🌎You don’t want to squander resources on disempowering projects that do more harm than good.
💜Enlace can help.

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HUGE thank you to Port City Mobilization for traveling down to to El Sal last week! Swipe through to see all their hard work.

We often joke that young people need to "touch grass." In El Salvador, there just isn't enough grass to touch. 🌱

Across El Salvador, there is a severe lack of safe, public space for kids and adults to "play". According to national surveys and local reports, the scarcity of parks, sports fields, and green areas directly affects youth engagement, mental health, and physical activity. Additionally, the absence of such spaces often correlates with higher exposure to violence, gangs, and fewer opportunities for positive community interaction.

Investments in these areas serve not only to improve quality of life but also to contribute to long-term strategies for violence prevention, youth development, and environmental restoration.

This week, Crossings Community Church is in El Salvador helping Casa del Alfarero Church in Chantusnene make a clean, safe, and functional recreational area accessible to 1,000 community members. 💪🌿

Welcome! And Thank you!

Ramírez is a remote, rural community whose only local access to medical services is a Ministry of Health “health care promoter” who conducts monthly medical consultations on the front porch of a resident’s home. This improvised, open space discouraged residents— especially women—from attending their health checkups.

With no public transportation, the only alternative was a 4-mile walk to the nearest town. An emergency trip to the nearest clinic or hospital? Cost prohibitive.

Ramírez needed another solution.

The local church in Ramírez, “A Voice of Hope Church,” recognized the community’s need and solicited help to create plans to build a LOCAL health clinic.

ENLACE is excited to partner with them on this initiative. But guess what? You too can become a partner!

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Welcome to Roca de Salvación Church in El Flor, El Salvador, Port City Mobilization!

This week, we'll be working with Port City to improve water and sanitation in a rural hamlet in eastern El Salvador. Families in El Flor depend mainly on small-scale farming of corn and beans, supplemented by occasional labor in nearby towns. Households live on less than $200 per month and lack basic infrastructure— like water and sanitation.

Our goal? Construct 10 composting latrines, train 20 participating family members in
the use and maintenance of the composting latrines, and strengthen partnerships between the church, the local leaders, and local stakeholders! 💪☀

Tina and Sam Magar traced a human trafficking route from North India to its source in their homeland of Nepal. There, parents were promised work opportunities for their children abroad, only to never see them again. Efforts to “rescue” or buy back girls’ freedom had failed. The only solution, Tina concluded, was ENLACE’s holistic approach to transformation at the individual, family, and community levels. Everything short of that led girls right back into slavery.

A staff of seven ENLACE Nepal leaders has now trained 580 leaders in 80 communities to carry out 70 projects a year impacting 25,000 people a year. Tina was right! Human traffickers are powerless to prey on communities that work together to provide opportunity and hope. ENLACE Nepal is now expanding operations into Katmandu, which we expect to enhance our strategic alliances with the international nonprofit sector.

You can sponsor a project one of these communities is working towards with ENLACE, using the link below!

https://give.enlace.link/campaign/sponsor-a-project/c477981

Verónica Membreño Dreams of Safety...
Jehová Yire Church Dreams of Manifesting the Gospel...

Families can feel safe from assaults. Parents could no longer worry drivers won't see their kids at night. The elderly can see sidewalks and stairs, preventing falls. Street vendors are setting up in the evening as streets come alive!

Verónica Membreño wants this for her street. She's willing to work and donate what she can to make it happen—CAN WE HELP?

Jehová Yire Church has already done most of the work. They just need $3,550
more to install the next 10 streetlights serving 200 people in 40 families.

Give to this cause using the link below! Change a life! Celebrate mothers!
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https://give.enlace.link/campaign/797909/donate

You don't have to have a mother or be a mother to support mothers in poverty around the world! Each of these projects helps a mother feed her family while developing entrepreneurial and leadership skills to serve her family, church, and community.

Find more info and GIVE using the link below! 💛💓🌿
https://give.enlace.link/campaign/797908/donate