This savings and credit cooperative set up, run by and for women in rural El Salvador focuses on repairing, rebuilding and improving communities following years of civil unrest and two successive earthquakes.
Through the cooperative, families can access much needed credit and funds for improving homes and one-to-one training to help them manage their finances. By actively empowering women this project helps to create more gender equality in a traditionally male dominated society.
As well as housing, the women have set up a business making environmentally sustainable building materials and they also run a water treatment plant. The training and employment opportunities they offer to local young people are helping them to remain in their community rather than migrating to urban areas.
