This project in Santa Marta is part of Doctors for Global Health (Médicos para la Salud Global), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 by volunteers in El Salvador. The organization aims to promote human rights by building long-term relationships between its volunteers and communities around the world. Their mission is to improve health and foster human rights for those most in need by accompanying communities. 

Funding from the Martín Baró Initiative (MBI) will support the community’s work to intervene in the psychological and psychosocial effects of the Salvadoran civil war on its survivors and their descendants. Connecting with Life aims to promote the mental health of the survivors of armed conflict through the development of a radio campaign and the creation of self-help and self-care groups. The project targets women survivors of gender-based violence and men with drug use problems. With this project, Doctors for Global Health emphasizes the importance of mental health and self-care especially in response to traumatic events such as social violence, gender violence, and forced migration.