Earthquake Reconstruction Program close out
August 10, 2005

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The U.S. government, through U.S. Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), closed the Earthquake Reconstruction Program on July 20, in Nueva Cruzadilla de San Juan community, Jiquilisco, Usulutan.

As part of the close out ceremony, El Salvador President Elias Antonio Saca presented the 449 houses that were built in the community with USAID funds.

In collaboration with NGOs and the Salvadoran Government, USAID invested the $170 million that the U.S. Government granted to El Salvador in the reconstruction of community and municipal infrastructure, disaster mitigation and economic reactivation.