The Centro Bartolomé de las Casas is a community organization with five staff and many volunteers who work with local communities in economic, social, psychosocial and spiritual development.

With funds from the Martín-Baró Fund, two members of their staff and several volunteers will extend recently initiated psychosocial work with women survivors of massacres and families of victims in two rural Salvadoran communities, Arcatao and Perquin. They will train local community workers who will work with an organization of survivors in these communities to systematically address social trauma through a project of recovering memories and through individual and group-based work using creative play, traditional medicines, and acupressure. This psychosocial work is part of a wider community process through which survivors will work to vindicate the past and seek justice towards the future.