Habitat for Humanity El Salvador – A visit to Sonsonate the 2008 Navidad en Acción (Christmas in Action) Build site

Piedras Pachas, Sonsonate, El Salvador – 2011. This Habitat build project was Habitat El Salvador’s Navidad en Acción (Christmas in Action) blitz build consisting of six houses in Guadalupe which is a small village located east of San Salvador near the city of San Vicente. After the build some of the team who had been in El Salvador in 2008 did a day trip to Sonsonate to check out the houses we had built and visit with Don Vicente and his family.
Driving through San Salvador on the way to Sonsonate to visit the Habitat houses that we build during a previous Global Village build in 2008
Street market we passed in San Salvador on the way to Sonsonate to visit the Habitat houses that we build during a previous Global Village build in 2008. 2011…
A sugarcane field near San Salvador, El Salvador
The highway bridge in the foreground was destroyed by floods in October 2011 and the rail bridge up stream badly damaged. This disaster was just a few weeks…
Volcán de Izalco in western El Salvador, not far from Sonsonate, El Salvador
Sonsonate, El Salvador
One of the Habitat houses in Piedras Pachas, Sonsonate that I worked on during the 2008 Habitat El Salvador’s Navidad en Acción (Christmas in Action) blitz…
This habitat project site is located on the outskirts of Sonsonate, El Salvador in a small village called Piedras Pachas. These houses were built during the…
This habitat project site is located on the outskirts of Sonsonate, El Salvador in a small village called Piedras Pachas. These houses were built during the…
This habitat project site is located on the outskirts of Sonsonate, El Salvador in a small village called Piedras Pachas. These houses were built during the…
This habitat project site is located on the outskirts of Sonsonate, El Salvador in a small village called Piedras Pachas. These houses were built during the…
One of Don Vicente’s grandchildren. Don Vicente is the father of the five family members who each received a Habitat house in 2008. Some of the 2008 habitat…
One of Don Vicente’s grandchildren. Don Vicente is the father of the five family members who each received a Habitat house in 2008. Some of the 2008 habitat…
Don Vicente and his wife – Parents of the five family members who received Habitat houses in 2008. Some of the 2008 habitat team visited the site in 2011and…
Don Vicente and part of the Canadian team that helped build the Habitat houses in 2008. Some of the 2008 habitat team visited the site in 2011. Sonsonate, El…
This habitat project site is located on the outskirts of Sonsonate, El Salvador in a small village called Piedras Pachas. These houses were built during the…
Street vender in Sonsonate, El Salvador
Street vender in Sonsonate, El Salvador
Street vender in Sonsonate, El Salvador
This railway bridge was destroyed by floods in October 2011. The bridge was washed away leaving only the railway track hanging across the river. El Salvador.