Building Homes, Rebuilding Lives in El Salvador

UMCOR and its partners, The Methodist Church of El Salvador and ACT (Action by Churches Together, the relief and development arm of the World Council of Churches), are committed to long-term recovery, with a focus on rebuilding housing. Volunteers are needed.

   Please give to UMCOR Advance #511447 and designate "El Salvador Earthquake" on the memo line of your check. Give through your local United Methodist church or mail contributions to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a credit card donation. One hundred percent of your gift goes to relief efforts in El Salvador. United Methodists' generous giving to the One Great Hour of Sharing, part of their ongoing contribution to mission around the world, supplements the cost of Advance gifts.

Photo: Children left homeless by January 2001's quake in Matazano, a remote village in Sonsonate. ACT partners in El Salvador have provided emergency relief assistance in Matazano and hundreds of other rural villages throughout the ravaged country. Paul Jeffrey/ACT

News and Background

Onsite

2003

• El Salvador Earthquake UMVIM Response
• In El Salvador, Volunteers Build Homes and Offer Vacation Bible School, July 5, 2003.
• "Beautiful Houses" Bring Smiles in El Salvador, UMCOR/ACT, February 26, 2003.

2001

• El Salvador: When the Earth Shakes, It's the Poor Who Suffer story and photos by Paul Jeffrey, New World Outlook, July-August 2001
  
• Volunteers Will Build Homes for El Salvador Quake Victims, UMNS, June 4, 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, February 23, 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, February 16, 2001
• Línea de emergencia de UMCOR, 9 de febrero de 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, February 9, 2001
• From Russia with Love: Two Month’s Salary for El Salvador, GBGM, February 9, 2001
• Línea de emergencia de UMCOR, 2 de febrero de 2001
  Terremotos en El Salvador y el sur asiático
• UMCOR Hotline, February 2, 2001
  Recovery stage from the earthquake begins, volunteer and material goods needs
• UMCOR Hotline, January 31, 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, January 26, 2001
• Puerto Rican Church to Help in El Salvador, UMNS, January 19, 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, January 19, 2001
• A United Methodist Missionary Describes the El Salvador Earthquake by Martha Collier, GBGM, January 19, 2001
• UMCOR Hotline, January 16, 2001
  UMCOR's initial response to the earthquake in El Salvador.
• United Methodists Assisting El Salvador Earthquake Victims
  The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the disaster relief unit for the 9.5 million member United Methodist Church, is working with United Methodist Church leaders in El Salvador to provide relief to victims of last Saturday's devastating earthquake there.
• Global Connections: El Salvador

Offsite

• Relief Web, United Nations, El Salvador
  ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). When a disaster strikes, it features news from UMCOR and other relief agencies.

  2001

• El Salvador Says Earthquake Aid From Abroad Is Lagging, New York Times, February 26, 2001
• Salvadoran Doctors Struggle With Quake Carnage, AP, February 15, 2001

  January 2001

• El Salvador Earthquake: "More Aid Needed", BBC, January 24, 2001
• Mudslides New Threat in El Salvador, Disaster News Network, January 22, 2001
• Priority to Assist People in Rural Areas, ACT, January 21, 2001
• Public Gives to El Salvador's Displaced, Disaster News Network, January 17, 2001
• Hunger stalks quake victims, BBC News, January 17, 2001
• Death Toll Climbs to 600 in Salvadoran Earthquake, New York Times, January 16, 2001
• Shelter for Earthquake Victims, ACT, January 16, 2001
• Aid Rushed to Earthquake Survivors, Disaster News Network, January 15, 2001

  Photos and Maps

  • El Salvador Earthquake Photo Library
  • Map of Earthquake Damage, United States Department of State/Global Disaster Information Network, January 14, 2001
  • Map of El Salvador Earthquake with Death and Damage Statistics, January 17, 2001