El Salvador project 519-0420 · 1994–1999 · Medical Service Corp. International

Grant to Medical Service Corporation International (MSCI) to form a network of PVOs to work with street and displaced children in El Salvador. The project will support interventions to, e.g., provide displaced and street children improved literacy skills and access to education, vocational skills and job opportunities, economic opportunities through credit and child-run microenterprises, improved health and nutritional status, and emotional security through counseling and reinsertion into a family environment. MSCI will form a network of indigenous PVOs based on its existing network of PVOs cooperating in the PROSAMI Maternal/Child Health project (5290367). Participating PVOs will be located in either San Salvador or urban municipalities; most of the PVOs chosen will work with Peace Corps volunteers in implementing this project. The project will be implemented in phases, beginning with a small number of PVOs. The PVOs will be trained concerning the status of street children, implementation of key interventions, and all phases of project development. As a first step, PVOs will identify the street/displaced children in their communities and the existing sources of food, shelter,

Source: DEC abstract, PD-FEA-054 (1994). The source's own text.