El Salvador Partnership Trips
Love In Motion Trip
Each year, the Presbytery of Long Island El Salvador Partnership and APRODEHNI holds a health campaign in several rural communities in El Salvador to help provide basic health care and medications to children and their families. Over the years, Love in Motion has provided basic medical care to about 27,000 people who might not otherwise have seen a physician. A drop in the bucket in terms of total population, but an important drop nonetheless. And, at least two times, Partnership physicians diagnosed people ...
Theater Workshop Mission Trip
In 2001, the Partnership and APRODEHNI began to incorporate the young people of El Salvador and Long Island into their efforts to create strong bridges between the two countries.
It started out with a casual comment back in 1996. Gil Geremias Pintin, then a worker with APRODHENI and now its executive director, mentioned to members of the Partnership that they had just started a youth theatre program. The initiative was one of several arts and recreational initiatives launched to steer children ...