President Saca and USAID Director Formally Donate 619 permanent
family homes in Ahuachapan
June 14, 2004

On June 11, President Tony Saca, USAID Director Mark Silverman,
and several Salvadoran officials formally donated 619 houses
to beneficiary families in the municipality of Ahuachapan.
The houses are part of a total of 26, 000 houses that are
being constructed in 110 municipalities of El Salvador
under the Earthquake Reconstruction Program financed by the
U.S.
government through the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID).
For the 619 houses donated on June 11, USAID
provided funding totalling $2.4 million. So far, more than
22,000
houses have been built under this program and more
than 3,000 are currently under construction.
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