El Salvador
Originally a project of El Salvador's NGO network against AIDS (FUNDASIDA), Entre Amigos works to promote and defend the human rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Projects in El Salvador
Asociacion Agropecuaria Salvadoreña (AGROSAL)
Advocacy and Organizing for Food Security
To strengthen an income-generation program by providing training about loan and business management, commercialization and community organizing.
Asociacion Amigos de San Isidro, Cabañas (ASIC)
Capacity Building and Community Organizing
To respond to weak community involvement and food insecurity by carrying out trainings in human rights and civic participation and providing technical assistance for sustainable agriculture projects.
Asociacion Cooperativa de Aprovisionamiento, Ahorro, Crédito y Consumo de Mujeres del bajo Lempa 'Marta González' (ACAMG)
Organizational Capacity Building
To address food insecurity and poverty by training women cooperative members in micro business development, gender and animal husbandry, and by maintaining a rotating loan fund to invest in members' micro businesses.
Asociacion Cristiana de Jovenes (ACJ-YMCA)
Youth Participation in Government HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts
To remedy young people's poor access to reproductive health knowledge and services through peer education and municipal advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Asociación Agropecuaria de Mujeres Rurales Produciendo en la Tierra (AMSATI de RL)
Strengthening the Productive Capacities of Rural Women
To support general operating costs through covering the costs two part-time staff members and basic operating costs, such as utilities, mainttnance fees, tecnological equipment, communications costs, and transportation.
Asociación de Mujeres Flor de Piedra
Promoting Sex Workers' Sexual and Reproductive Health
To respond to HIV/AIDS and discrimination against commercial sex workers by implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and rights education programs for sex workers and advocating against discriminatory city policies.
Asociación Equipo Maíz
Popular Education and Literacy
To conduct a training course in economic literacy and organizational development for leaders from 80 grassroots and civil society organizations, including several AJWS partners from the Mesoamerican region.
Asociación Salvadoreña de Derechos Humanos 'Entre Amigos'
Community Organizing and Advocacy for LGBT Rights
To push for the rights of LGBTI people and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) by advocating for national anti-discrimination policies, training on human rights and sexual and reproductive health, and encouraging hospitals to establish policies supportive of LGBTI people and PLWHA.
Comite Contra el SIDA (CoCoSi)
Peer Education for HIV Prevention
To strengthen CoCoSi's HIV/AIDS prevention and response programs by conducting trainings around gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS with men and by improving the organization's infrastructure.
Comite de Reconstruccion y Desarrollo Economico y Social de Comunidades de Suchitoto (CRDESC)
Milk Production Cooperative
To respond to food insecurity and poverty in nine communities by developing a cooperative milk-production business that will generate additional income for members and their families.
