Stories

Throughout 2020, strategic design students from the Monica Herrera School of Communication (ECMH), supported entrepreneurs from Programa Velasco’s (PV) Women’s Empowerment Project (WEP) by working

Can you imagine dedicating 16 hours a day to working around the house? It seems like an exaggeration, but if a day has 24 hours,

In March 2021, to commemorate International Women’s Day, Sister Peggy O’Neill, director of Centro Arte para la Paz (Center of Arts for Peace) shared how she has seen

As mentioned in our previous articles within this series, it is common that women in El Salvador are expected to do unpaid work and/or remain

Calladita te ves más bonita. You look prettier with your mouth shut. How many are familiar with this phrase? Here in El Salvador this phrase

In 2018, Marina Subirats, an expert in feminism, coeducation, and education for equality, gave her opinion on the book “Emilio” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, considered a

Much is said about how equality between men and women is growing. Despite some achievements, something that has not yet changed in El Salvador is

Solidarity and trust are the values that donors who contributed to the COVID Relief and Recovery Fund for Family showed us last April. Through this

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is an approach that has emerged to work with those who have gone through difficult or traumatizing situations. Through this approach, it

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the global economy and El Salvador has been no exception to those effects. The application of measures to prevent and

Since July 2016, Programa Velasco (PV) has celebrated its annual Giving Day. Organized out of our headquarters in El Salvador but held online, Giving Day

COVID-19 shook the health and economy of the modern world. Without an end in sight, there is more talk of a “new normal,” than returning

Sandra is a woman, a mother and an entrepreneur, and although like many women in El Salvador, she has never attended formal school herself, she

Because of social, economic and educational inequalities that persist in Salvadoran society today, not all women are able to obtain quality jobs that allow them

The measures taken to prevent the infection of COVID-19 within Salvadoran populations have been implemented since March, and have gradually caused the majority of business

“In workshops, I discovered how to empower myself and I like that. It is wonderful to feel that I can decide what to do and not rely on others to do it for me.”