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New Projects to Help Communities in El Salvador
El Pregonero
April 8, 2004
Alex Ortiz-Cañas
Translation by PADF
While presenting the new board members, the Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. annouced an innovative development project in alliance with private businesses in the metropolitan area, with an objective of bringing help to their nationals in El Salvador.
“We will be working hard to bring Salvadoran businessmen and we will help out those who are starting,” said Elmer Arias, the Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce’s new president.
Arias added that, along with his partners, he will work towards the development of the Salvadoran community and at the same time he announced the support of several businesses who will be donating part of the revenues to develop projects in the Central American country.
The Chamber’s representatives mentioned, as an example, a beer company who will donate a percentage of their sales in the area to go directly to the project.
According to representatives of the new board, there are about 3,000 Salvadoran businessmen in the area and many of them are members of the Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce, which was founded two years ago to bring small and large businessmen together, and at the same time help the communities.
The members of the new chamber announced the support of about 13 businesses who will be working in the projects to assist Salvadoran communities.
“The project in San Pedro Masahuat is a great opportunity to create new jobs and produce new agricultural products,” pointed out Dale A. Crowell, the Pan American Development Foundation’s (PADF) remittances program manager. PADF is an organization who is working with the chamber in this project, which will give peasants an opportunity to produce and sell agricultural products such as green chili, maracuyá, loroco, and other fruits and vegetables.
“It’s a challenge for the business community since Salvadoran are the majority in the Washington metropolitan area,” said José Ramos, executive director for the Salvadoran American chamber of Commerce, while talking about the positive development that this organization could have and the help that it could generate when it brings its forces together.
One by one, the members who will fill the new positions, were mentioned, among them Elmer Arias as president, Isaís Pérez, as vicepresident, Osvaldo Mercado, as treasures, and other important members of the board.
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