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Thank you for your donation or purchase.  We appreciate your support.  Gifts of all amounts are appreciated.

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or you can mail a check made out to "San Pedro Sister Community" to

Larry Buffam

3887 State Rte 38

Moravia, NY 13118

                                    Donations are used to sustain the following projects:

Scholarship program – The San Pedro Sister Community Scholarship program helps students of San Pedro continue their education beyond the local school level.  We wish to encourage motivated committed students to attend middle school, high school and university.

Marketing – We pay women up front for the making of purses, bottle holders, and hammocks;  We transport the goods to our area and market them here for the same price we paid the women.  These sales provide substantial income for the famislies of San Pedro.

Micro-loan program for farmers – We gave seed money for a self-sustaining and community directed program which offers small loans for the purchase of seed and fertilizer, paid back when farmers sell their harvest.  We have added money to the program when the community’s committee deemed it possible to add families to the program.

Food Security project – We have donated to a pilot program in San Pedro involving corn storage that would provide food security in San Pedro and, if successful, in other rural Salvadoran communities.

Oral History Project – This has been undertaken in response to requests by members of the San Pedro Community to tell their stories and have them recorded. 

Emergency Fund -- approx. $300-400 annually, used for community emergency needs, usually medical related, e.g. transportation to clinic or hospital.

Related project: Through FACES, an American non-profit working in conjunction with FUNDAHMER, San Pedro has been a participant in the Dignified Housing Project, which was born out of a shared dream between San Pedro community and the Cayuga sister community group.  A community based approach has been used in building safe and durable homes at reasonable cost (about $2,500 per house). So far 3 new homes have been built in the San Pedro. Donations for this project can be made through the FACES website.

more about our projects - 2018 update