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In 1980, 10,000 Salvadoran refugees left there homes
in the mountains of Morazan
to escape the civil war
They lived for nine years in the refugee camp in Colomancagua, Honduras.
When they returned they established the Community Segundo Montes.
Before the war we all lived scattered.
Some over here and some over there.
The houses were far away and the streets were bad.
We had nothing
Only what our parents told us to do
When our parents sent us to do something then we would have something to do
Sometimes people didn't have a place to live.
A lot of people didn't have a place to live
We were all poor.
Let's talk a little about the arrival to the refugee camp in Colomancagua, Honduras.
It was very difficult to get there.
But after it was very advantageous
When we started to organize into groups, in camps, in sectors
in committees in order to start working
With a lot of suffering at the beginning.
Almost all of us were illiterate, we didn't know how to read
or know how write.
But if there were some bright kids that studied maybe until 6th grade
we would choose them to teach even though they didn't know how.
And that is how we began developing all the projects and the work.
Health, education,
the collective work of our meals.
We had a great development, in community
and for each and every life there.
It was a school for us
in the refugee camp in Honduras.
This is a storytelling project.
We are capturing the communit's historical memory
through personal stories, collective workshops and an archive.
We have to work on this historical memory with the community.
I am part of a commission that will offer this project.
The commission of (collective memory workshop) facilitators
It's to talk about our collective memory.
Of all the experiences that we have had along the way.
This is the work we will be doing.
We are going to work in groups.
And if someone wants to give their personal testimony
but can not come to the workshops we will impart
we want to visit their homes so they can provide us with their testimonies.
The result of this project:
a book, a digital library and a video documenting the process.
I think that at this moment, the historical memory book we are wanting to make
for the new generation
is a very important book for our whole community
because it will have many testimonies of many people who have died in the fight.
And a lot about the suffering the soldiers had given us.
The book will have a very important significance
because those kids who don't know about the story of our struggle
they will have it(struggle) in their generation.
It's for the future of our children and our grandchildren.
In order to not forget all the past that we suffered
we want our historical memory written here
in this temple of heroes and martyrs.