It’s that time of year again! The Viva Fund is an annual campaign by EcoViva to raise money for programs that support young people in El Salvador. Youth in El Salvador often face incredible challenges. Poverty, lack of job opportunities, and the very serious threat of gang violence force too many young people to curtail their […]
Youth Redefining Themselves through Leadership
It’s a balmy evening and the atmosphere is electric in the small town of San Marcos Lempa. San Marcos is normally bustling; the unassuming cluster of buildings along the two-lane coastal highway is the gateway to the Lower Lempa and a point of convergence for people going to the market, looking to catch a […]
Meet Ana Luisa Ahern, our newest team member
We’re thrilled to welcome our new Program and Policy Director Ana Luisa Ahern to the EcoViva family. Read on to learn about Ana and her impressive story, as well as her plans to further our partners’ work in Central America. You can welcome Ana too by making a donation to our 6th Annual Viva Fund campaign to […]
It’s Viva Fund time again!
Today we’re happy to kick off our 6th Annual Viva Fund campaign to support young leaders in El Salvador! We created the Viva Fund five years ago to further our partners’ work for locally-led, sustainable development in the Lower Lempa region of El Salvador by focusing more resources on youth leadership. The Viva Fund has accomplished a lot these last five years. For three years, the […]
Viva Fund: Cara’s Story
We’re in the fifth week of the Viva Fund campaign to support youth leaders in El Salvador. This post was contributed by Cara Hagan, a recent graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey who traveled to El Salvador with EcoViva in March. She is serving as an ambassador for the fifth annual Viva Fund. […]
