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How Your Gift Can Help

• $5,000 Could provide a laboratory technician for one year to work in the newly finished laboratory in El Tablón and train the health promoters in basic laboratory techniques.
• $2,500 Could provide support to start a health promoter cooperative through acquisition of land for the "House of Culture" in El Tablón.
• $2,000 Could support one health promoter or a teacher in a Centro Integral de Desarrollo Infantil (CIDI-Center for Integral Child Development) for a year.
• $1,500 Could provide a badly needed computer for the nuns of Hospital San Carlos in Chiapas, Mexico (see page 10).
• $1,000 Could provide iodized-oil to cure endemic goiter in Estancia, Cacaopera (about 3,000 persons: prevalence > 50%).
• $500 Could provide a fully stocked "botiquin" (medicine/first aid kit) for a newly trained health promoter.
• $250 Could provide a small table with two chairs for one of the newly constructed CIDIs.
• $80 Could provide a large, high quality chalkboard for a CIDI.
• $50 Could provide one child in a CIDI with a year's school supplies.
• $25 Could provide materials to build one latrine, reducing parasitism in one family.
• $10 Could provide a good pair of shoes for one child in a CIDI. Material donations, including computers and medical supplies, are also essential. To find out exactly what we need, see our web site or call the DGH office (see page 12).

Though financial support is necessary if we are to continue our work, your on-going interest in, and support of, the Peace Process here in El Salvador is also essential. It is only through international pressure that the Peace Accords and recommendations of the United Nations Truth Commission will see completion and a lasting peace created.

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