Community-based scholarships for middle school, high school, and university students

Since 2010, our partner organization, FUNDAHMER, has helped facilitate scholarships for young people in rural and urban Salvadoran communities. These scholarships help students pay public bus fare to get to school, pay for lunch during the school day, and buy school supplies like notebooks, uniforms, printing and internet use, and computers for university students. While many sister communities have their own scholarships programs through FUNDAHMER that benefit their sister community, FACES supports scholarships for students who are involved in FUNDAHMER’s work but whose community doesn’t have a sister community relationship. We also collect donations from sister communities for their Salvadoran students.

We believe that facilitating education is one of many ways of creating opportunities for young people in El Salvador and for helping young people grow into leadership roles in their communities. This is our largest ongoing project, and we encourage you to make a monthly recurring donation!

Make a donation HERE!

*** Some of our students still need a partner! ***

1. Andrea is in her first year studying Humanities in the National University. She is a leader in her ecclesial base community in La Libertad, and commutes every day to San Salvador for her classes! She has four more years of classes and then a thesis project, which usually takes about a year.
2. Azucena is in her final year of a fashion design major. Her father has this to say about her studies: “I didn’t even know that fashion design was something you could study in university, and I was surprised that’s what she wanted to go with, but then I remembered that my mother was the neighborhood seamstress in our town, and Azucena has a lot of artistic on her mother’s side. Turns out this is a major that requires a lot of creativity, and I’ve been surprised to learn about it!”
3. Mercedes is from Cacaopera, a rural municipality in the mountainous department of Morazán. She moved to San Salvador with her mother and needs assistance to finish her last year of high school in the city.
4. Violeta is the niece of a historic community leader in San Salvador. She is beginning her studies in Sociology at the National University, and is looking for a partner to accompany her throughout her studies.

Write to us if you would like to partner with any of these students!