Moncagua Displaced Persons Camp: There are 44 "displaced persons" settlements in Salvador containing more than 18 families each. There are probably many more unofficial ones. AID has thus far spent $72.5 million on its displaced person program in El Salvador. It recently obtained a 3-year extension of the program for the amount of $60 million. Project Hope, a U.S. PVO, runs the dispensary in the DP camp. AID's DP employment projects built the washstands pictured by the river which are useful to the people in the camps and provide employment and limited wages for the men in the camps. Other employment projects built the houses and drainage ditches. The men get 6 colones a day plus meals. The employment projects employ from 11-12,000 displaced persons, and sometimes as many as 16,000. These projects also receive PL-480 Title II food aid. The feeding center at the camp is run by CESAD, the Salvadoran Evangelical Committee, a PVO that took over the feeding project after it was initiated by AID's Division of Humanitarian Assistance. Photo by Barry Fitzgerald, 1985.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.25.2015 13:03 |
| Photo ID: | 2117590 |
| VIRIN: | 150812-O-ZZ999-149 |
| Resolution: | 12404x16000 |
| Size: | 17.09 MB |
| Location: | SV |
| Web Views: | 165 |
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