By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director SAN SALVADOR—We are in the hills just outside the chaotic urban sprawl at a former refugee camp where once bombs fell and Devora Rivas huddled inside the wire with hundreds of other women and children, not daring to go out and hoping the Army chose not to come [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Val de Marne Clinic
February 25, 2011 | 10:48 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director EL ESPINO—The people come in from the hills, from miles down the coast, to see the doctor at the Val de Marne clinic. They line up, sitting in flimsy white plastic chairs in the blue-painted breezeway with their cuts and sicknesses, their ailing children. Dr. Ernesto Quinteros sees [...]
Farther Away and Deeper in the Forest
February 25, 2011 | 10:46 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director EL ESPINO—The SARA group stepped carefully, one by one, into the fiberglass longboat. I stepped in last and took the spot in the prow so as better be able to film and photograph the excursion. The Salvadoran captain of the launch, an older fisherman, fired up the outboard [...]
The Children of the Mangroves Photo Essay
February 14, 2011 | 7:04 am
Click on this text to see photographs of the children of El Espino at work and at play taken over a period of six years.
Return to El Espino
February 14, 2011 | 7:00 am
By Andrew J. Tonn Media Director EL ESPINO—The early morning was dense with the sounds of mourning doves and cock crows, car horns and traffic that intruded on sleep as they echoed through the hard corridors of tile and plaster. I slipped from bed, dressed and padded out into the flower-filled courtyard of the Hotel [...]
First Day in El Salvador: Apopa, CEFOR and Soyapanago
February 10, 2011 | 4:34 am
By Andrew J. Tonn Media Director SAN SALVADOR–The day broke clear and hot and despite the best preparation, the morning’s travels began late as is often the case in Central America. Eventually all hands were arrived and were accounted for and we set out into El Salvador in a big and shiny bus labeled “Tourismo”. [...]
Surgery Needed for a Friend in Hungary
February 10, 2011 | 3:42 am
This letter concerns Mr. Pápai’s visit to Nyíregyháza on Thursday. Dr. Szabó was very nice to give him an appointment and the next day they talked on the phone. She examined Mr. Pápai and did some warming procedures to ease his pain. She also prescribed some medication for him to take until the surgeries are [...]