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ENLACE’s Center for Community Transformation, located in El Salvador, is dedicated to providing learning, training, and research opportunities to community development practitioners and scholars that focus on church and community-led poverty alleviation and community transformation.

Additionally, the Center hosts occasional short-term learning trips, forums, and seminars on special topics like immigration and other areas of interest to church leaders and groups.

The Center provides a home for the ongoing ENLACE Study Abroad Program, an in-country, field, and classroom-based learning experience for undergraduate and graduate students from partner universities focusing on the areas of poverty alleviation and community transformation.

Past Participants Testimonials

"[Going to] El Salvador shifted my perspective...I am thankful for the relationships that I still have from my initial study abroad and my recent trips back. I am now able to use those tools in my professional life working with at-risk teens in America to reach their full potential."
Trinity FloresVanguard University, Sociology, Graduated May 2015
"My time here in El Salvador has been an unforgettable experience. I've been shown the world of poverty in a new light, grown tremendously as a person, and have acquired a rediscovered faith, leaving me to be a changed person."
Emily KlosSoutheastern University, Marketing, Graduating Spring of 2017
"Having the privilege to study in El Salvador did-more than just enhance my knowledge of poverty alleviation and church-based community development. I gained an insight into God's love of people and desire for us to know Him and serve and love His people as Christ did, which completely changed my understanding of the mission of the kingdom of God."
Kasey WellsSoutheastern University, Psychology, Graduating May 2018
"I am certain that as I begin law school this fall God will continue to reveal how I can use the strategies I learned about community development through this study abroad to bring about change in my own city and nation. I'm so grateful for the stories that intersected with my own in El Salvador and how they will impact my passion for making a difference in the future."
Vonciel BryantSoutheastern University, International Business, Graduated 2015
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The ENLACE Study Abroad Program is an in-country, field, and classroom-based learning experience for undergraduate and graduate students focussing on the areas of poverty alleviation and community transformation.

 

Generally, classes are conducted through a series of consecutive modules (3-4 weeks) over a three-month period. Each module includes a combination of class instruction and fieldwork. Courses include:

  • Spanish
  • Area Studies: Latin America
  • Mission of the Church (Theology/Ecclesiology of the Church)
  • Church-based Community Transformation/Development
  • Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation
  • Community/Public Health
  • Social Business Development
  • Microenterprise Development and Microfinance

This program is unique in that students receive credit for five academic courses while also earning credit for an internship with ENLACE. During this internship, students spend time with various ENLACE church partners throughout rural El Salvador.

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