The first action of Mundubat as an international Cooperation organisation, what we now call a "project", was the construction of a hammock bridge in the mountainous Department of Chalatenango, in El Salvador. It was 1988 and the country was in the middle of a fratricidal civil war.

The building of that bridge brought us and the local communities together, and we threw ourselves to studying their political evolution of the last fifteen years. We supported them in El Refugio, working side by side amid the armed conflict, and helped them strengthen their organisation so that they could return to their land some day. We finally witnessed their return from the refugee camps and the 1992 Peace Agreements.When they returned to their land, these communities had to fight for their dignity and their most basic rights. Families met again, and for years they had to work hard on the recovered lands, when they started to lay the foundations of the first houses after the war. 

That cycle closed symbolically with the last great Project of the Land Transference Program (PTT), undertaken between 1999 and 2001. Nine years after the Peace Agreements were signed, the last returning communities were at last able to build their new houses, cultivate their lands and harvest their first crops.

At the moment we are designing projects for local development, popular economies and citizens' participation, defending the communities' right to a decent job and food sovereignty.