Many children in our educational programs have to walk extensive hours in soil roads to get to school. This obstructs children from attending school every day or getting there on time as some of them have to walk up to two hours to get to school and then make the 2 hour trip back home. Thanks to the new partnership with Bikes for the World, on February 2010  the first shipment of almost 600 used bicycles and parts was shipped to El Salvador for free distribution to beneficiary children who live far away from schools. Now beneficiary children have been reported to attend school regularly, and improved in their academic standing. This project also helped our income generation program since voluntary parents have signed up to open small bicycle shops in order to help fix the bicycles and help them with some income generation.

To view the bicycle report please click here.

More than 80% of people in need of a wheelchair in El Salvador do not have one. This all changed on 2007 when Free Wheel Chair Mission became our direct partner and together we coordinated the shipment of 550 wheelchairs for free distribution for the first time. On May 14, 2009 for a second year on a row we held another distributions ceremony were, hundreds of lives changed on one single day! The third container from Free Wheel Chair Mission is now on its way to El Salvador, approximately arriving by the end of August 2010!

Please refer to our Flip Book to learn more about this wonderful accomplishment that has changed hundreds of lives!