El Salvador: Lessons on Love and Resilience

Ten years ago, 19-year-old Anna Stout made her first trip to a small community in El Salvador. The people of El Espino soon became her family and the town her second home. She helped form the Foundation for Cultural Exchange, a Colorado-based nonprofit, which has been changing lives in El Espino and in Colorado ever since.November 2014 marks 10 years since that relationship began and this book is a celebration of that first decade. Stout writes of the culture's beauty and suffering, its struggles and survival. Her stories pay homage to the resilience, generosity, and warmth of the Salvadoran people.This book offers a narrative that is distinct from the hopelessness and bloodshed reported in the media, and instead humanizes the struggle to overcome the unimaginable odds to succeed and thrive in El Salvador.

Author: Anna M. Stout
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Exchange
Published: 10/27/2014
Pages: 106
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780692318317

About the Author
Anna M. Stout is a founding member of the Foundation for Cultural Exchange and has served as its president since 2004. She has returned to the country more than 35 times since her first visit. Ms. Stout is also a Certified Translator (Spanish>English) by the American Translators Association, a Certified Court Interpreter by the State of Colorado, and a Forensic Transcription and Translation Specialist. She owns Transfinem Language and Cultural Services, a regional translation, interpretation, and cultural consulting company (www.transfinem.com). Ms. Stout travels frequently around the western United States giving cultural trainings and serves on numerous non-profit boards in the Grand Valley. She divides her time between Grand Junction, CO, El Espino, El Salvador, and exploring the rest of the world. She is a self-proclaimed word nerd and chronic sojourner.

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