Empoderando a las Comunidades del Ãrea Rural de El Salvador

Salud Rural Comunitaria & Educación en Salud

Juvenil Urbano

Rural Pre-escolar

Clínica de Ojos

Microcrédito

Agricultura Sostenible

Español

English

Empoderando a las Comunidades del Ãrea Rural de El Salvador

Salud Rural Comunitaria & Educación en Salud

Este programa combina los esfuerzos de promotores rurales de salud en cada caserío, con un equipo profesional de doctores y enfermeras en clínicas rurales.

Programa Rural Pre-escolar “Brotes de Esperanza”

Similar a "Head Start," este programa dinámico sirve a niños preescolares (desde el nacimiento hasta los 6 años de edad) y a sus familias a través de una educación de calidad y visitas domiciliares.

Programa Juvenil Urbano “Ángeles Descalzos"

“Ángeles Descalzos” se centra en jóvenes de 7 a 18 años que trabajan en el mercado y en el basurero municipal. El programa ofrece cursos particulares después de la escuela: consejería, capacitación vocacional, deportes, actividades culturales y educación en salud.

Clínica de Ojos–Vicky Guzmán

ASAPROSAR provee exámenes de ojo, lentes y cirugías – todo a través de contribuciones económicas de bajo costo de sus clínicas en Santa Ana y San Miguel, y alrededor del país a través de su unidad móvil de asistencia ocular.

Microcrédito

El programa de microcrédito de ASAPROSAR ofrece préstamos a las personas – especialmente a mujeres – en áreas rurales y urbanas para empezar con negocios pequeños.

Agricultura Sostenible

El Salvador tiene actualmente el segundo nivel más alto de la degradación ecológica en América latina. Cerca del 80% del territorio está afectado por la erosión del suelo. Para contrarrestar estas tendencias, ASAPROSAR enseña a granjeros a utilizar los fertilizantes y los pesticidas orgánicos, prevenir la erosión del suelo y cómo tener cosechas nutritivas.

Correo electrónico

About the Friends of ASAPROSAR

In 1988 Friends determined that the population served by ASAPROSAR had no reasonable access to eye care, so a coordinated effort was mounted to establish an eye clinic. Two optometrists, one ophthalmologist and four volunteers were recruited, used eyeglasses were collected, and in 1989 the first eye clinic met a large demand – more than 800 patients were seen. That inaugural clinic took place during the El Salvadoran Civil War.

Eye care was the most desperate health care need for rural Salvadorans at that time. Campesinos — people who lived in the rural areas — could not afford eyeglasses, even if they knew what their prescription was. The proportion of people who were blind with opaque cataracts was incredibly high. The needs were great and the resources were virtually absent. The group committed to visit El Salvador yearly and we have been told that we were the only medical group in the world to serve the people in El Salvador during the war, without a political agenda.

Since that first clinic in 1989, an inventory of 10,000 used pairs of eyeglasses has been established. ASAPROSAR has a full-time optometrist and patients are seen year ’round. In 1994 eye surgery was initiated at a local hospital and, beginning in 2000, all surgery has been performed at the ASAPROSAR campus. Three operating rooms have now been set up there to date.

Today, Friends of ASAPROSAR (FoA) eye clinics are held annually under the direction and sponsorship of ASAPROSAR.

The group has now expanded considerably, usually consisting of about 60+ people each trip, and includes optometrists, ophthalmologists, OR nurses, anesthesiologists and lay volunteers. Those from the United States work closely with personnel from ASAPROSAR, who may or may not help in fitting eyeglasses and who coordinate all clinics.

Approximately 2,000 people are examined by our doctors on each trip and most of them are fitted with eyeglasses. Glaucoma testing is also carried out and many hundreds of sunglasses are distributed. Removal of cataracts, foreign body extractions and other surgical procedures had been done in the

past, in cooperation with the local free public hospital. However, in 1999, for the first time, the surgery was done on-site, in newly constructed and furnished operating room suites at the ASAPROSAR headquarters. Since then Friends of ASAPROSAR (FoA) has financed the construction of an additional annex to the surgical center and we continue to perform all our surgery on-site, including procedures as complex as corneal transplants.

In 2006, we expanded our work to include diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, diabetes and general cardiac conditions with major financial investment in stocking the pharmacy at ASAPROSAR in order to treat the very large number of poor people who would not, otherwise, be able to afford the necessary medicines to treat their debilitating diseases.