Tonight, well technically tomorrow, I'm going to El Salvador. I will be travelling with a fellow group of King's College Volunteers. And we will leave tonight at 1:30 am.
My trip will be very relevant to my site, because every year Salvadorans living in the United Stated send $2.5 billion back to their homeland. Many migrants are the sole providers of their families, therefore a steady flow of income is continuously shipped in from the States. And according to the Washington Post that's about 17% of the nation's national gross! Moreover, El Salvador is so heavily reliant on the US that the country even changed its currency to the dollar.
I look forward to meeting plenty of new people and learning more about the injustices in El Salvador, and what can be done to help the people. The thing about SERVE trips is, you see a lot of misery and at points it seems like the impoverished people have no hope. But, hope and education is what improves one's life, no matter how poor you are.
Will report back after my trip!
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