Promoting gender equity, community empowerment, and collective healing from trauma through the practice of strength sport.

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Promoting gender equity, empowerment, and healing from trauma through the practice of strength sport.

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Strengthening El Salvador

We provide powerlifting instruction at a public gym for marginalized neighborhoods on the outskirts of San Salvador. These neighborhoods confront extraordinary gang and police violence, domestic violence, poverty and social stigmatization.

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Powerlifting is a strength sport that tests athletes with three events: bench press, deadlift and squat. Each athlete makes three attempts at each event, and the highest successful lift will count toward the total. Athletes generally compete within classes split by age, weight and gender.

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We did it!

August 8th, 2021|News|

You made the new gym a reality! With your help, we raised $12.5k to meet our matching grant goal and partner with the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad to build the new safer

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