Where We Serve - El Salvador
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace first lived and worked with Salvadoran refugees in the mid-1980s—in time of civil war—and have continued this mission through natural disasters and reconstruction. In January 2001 Sister Eleanor Gilmore, CSJP founded PazSalud, a health care mission in El Salvador, jointly administered by the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace and PeaceHealth.
The purpose of the Mission is twofold: We seek to assist in providing health care to the people of El Salvador while offering PeaceHealth employees, staff physicians and CSJP affiliates an opportunity to serve.
Today Kathy Garcia serves as PazSalud’s Program Manager, working from her office in the Sacred Heart Riverbend campus in Springfield, Oregon, with frequent trips to El Salvador. Sister Susan Dewitt, CSJP is the in-country coordinator for PazSalud, living in the Suchitoto Base House with Sister Margaret Jane Kling, CSJP whose involvement with the people of El Salvador goes back to the mid 1980s, when she worked at the Calle Real refugee camp. Sr. Margaret Jane volunteers at the Centro Arte para la Paz, an arts school and community-building center coordinated by Sister Peggy O’Neill, S.C. who was awarded the Margaret Anna Cusack Peacemaker Award in 2002.
Read the Story of our CSJP Presence in El Salvador
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