Committee
Uluazapa
History
The Directive of The Uluazapa Development Committee was formed on February 14, 1992, after meeting in Ricardo Álvarez's apartment, located on 16th Street in Washington. The members of this committee consider that in the first years the work was more humanitarian. They were times traveling with clothing, toys, didactic material and sports accessory implements to help young people, to stay occupied by the right track, free of gangs and vices.
The first directive:
President: Felipe Chévez
Secretary: Ricardo Álvarez
Treasurer: José Antonio Vásquez y José Ángel Henríquez
Trustees: José Mauricio Henríquez y Carlos Mauricio Henríquez
Collaborators: Lilian Grande, José María Henríquez, Manuel Santos, José Santos Cabezas
Directive
Current Directive:
Carlos M. Henríquez
Andrés Antonio Henríquez
Abigail Pozo Martínez
Liseth Amaya
Candy Alvarenga
Francisco Ferrufino
Vowels: Marina Vásquez, José Alvarenga, Mirna Cruz, Maricela Benavidez, Ever Henríquez, Cornelia Henríquez, Héctor Henríquez, Idalia Henríquez
Collaborators: Miguel Martínez, Rosa Herminia Blanco, Johanna Henríquez, Nelson Henríquez, Marlene Suazo, José Villegas, Marisol Heníquez, Rigoberto Argueta, María Barrios, Elvia Guadalupe Hernández, Melva Pineda.
The idea of this structure was and continues to have members of the entire municipality, hamlets, cantons and the urban area of Uluazapa, so that it can cover the entire municipality in terms of participation and development, and above all power Assist people who have no help from the exterior of direct relatives.
Works
One of the first activities they carried out in the field of education was to donate Sacapuntas to all schools in the municipality, since they remembered when they were students who in the main school there were only one save, and that to have access to that important object they had to Remove double permission. First with the teacher and then with the director, because it was in the direction where the Sacapuntas was. Today we have advanced in that aspect of Sacapuntas to university scholarships such as Elvia Guadalupe Hernandez García, a degree in Marketing at the University of Oriente in San Miguel.
More than a decade ago this committee built a vocational center to carry out work workshops among which are counted and preparation, electricity. That center was built with the help of the agricultural bank and under the umbrella of another organization. In 2016, one of the best science laboratories that exist in the east of El Salvador was built in that municipality, and always with the counterpart of the Manos Unidas Program of the Agricultural Bank, the Poma Foundation, alumni, and the help of some entrepreneurs. The project was coordinated by Foundation for Social, Economic and Cultural Education
(Fupec) and the help of the school director. The committee approach is to continue working in health, education, social development, environment and infrastructure.
Important data
In the first years that the group formed, the members imposed a share of $ 10 or more, according to the will of each participant. They even had some members who were not Salvadorans but helped them as if they were. One of them is the case of Honduran Edgardo.
Both in the past and in the present the aid has been direct, but there has also been a support committee in the community of origin, to help them in logistics. They have worked with different support committees, the first one was called APROMU (Uluazapa Pro-Mejoriento Association). In recent years they have worked with the Mayor's Office regardless of what a political party is. They consider that by joining the resources of the Municipal Mayor's Office with those of the Committee in the United States, the work is more efficient.
The way of raising funds here in the area has changed. At present, as a committee, several events a year do: two excursions, two parties, two meat roasts and some fund collection campaigns for specific cases through Facebook, plus the events that are made through Cotsa. We sent a special thanks to all the people who support us with those events. It is in this way as we can help with the scholarships, send medical equipment, something we are doing since 2013. We have attended family cases of all kinds here in the Washington and El Salvador area.
Curiosities
Uluazapa, whose meaning is "Peñasco de los Ulúas", was the cradle of a tribe that existed in those places before the arrival of the Spaniards in Salvadoran territory. That municipality of the department of San Miguel, has a population of about 3,500 inhabitants and is from the departmental capital less than 20 kilometers. Uluazapa is also the second cradle of wind instrument musicians in the country.
