Metapan, El Salvador
Fundación Ministerio Visión Familiar
Fundación Ministerio Visión Familiar works in preventative medicine through health education. Pillars of the ministry include: home health; Bible-based evangelism; witnessing Christ; prayer for the sick; and church collaboration.
Navidad works with a number of local schools to teach virtues and health education through the scope of a Christian worldview. She works with both elementary schools and adolescents, teaching age-appropriate topics.
She also works with local communities, promoting disease prevention and women’s mental health, highlighted by literacy, entrepreneurship and first-aid courses.
Her passion extends to the care of the elderly by teaching self-care, self-assessment and the prevention of chronic diseases and conditions.
“I enjoy being part of the Luke Society because it has allowed me to realize one of the dreams of my life, which is to do missions with the natives in El Salvador,” Navidad said. “I understand them. I know them. I can see the best and also predict the worst. It makes it easier for me to have hope in God for them because I am theirs.”
Dr. Beatriz Navidad
About the ministry:
Name: Fundación Ministerio Visión Familiar
Location: Metapan, El Salvador
Director: Dr. Beatriz Navidad
Partnership: 2012-present
Staff: 2
Our mission:
“To contribute to the transformation and unity of families through preventative medicine, health education and life skills.”
Why I love being a director:
“Making new contacts with people, community leaders and pastors. To know them and identify the needs, and — through the message of Jesus and preventative medicine — to be a light of hope to face the challenges of life.”
About El Salvador:
Population: 6.5 million
Size: 21,041 sq. km, or slightly smaller than Massachusetts.
Capital: San Salvador
Borders: Guatemala to the northwest; Honduras to the east and northeast; Pacific Ocean to the south.
Religious groups: Catholic, 50.0%; Protestant, 36.0%.
Primary language: Spanish
Literacy (age 15+): 89.1%
Physician density: 1.6 doctors per 1,000 people.
Population below international poverty line: 22.8%
Life expectancy: 75.1 years
Infant mortality rate: 12.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Major exports: Coffee, sugar, textiles and apparel, gold, ethanol, chemicals, electricity, metals.
Climate: Tropical; rainy season (May-October); dry season (November-April); tropical on coast and temperate in uplands.
Terrain: Mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau.
