In San Roque, a community of San Salvador city, a partnership between three NGOs, the municipal government, the "Italian International Cooperation Agency" , the Catholic church, one public and one private University, the local health center, and the community members, implemented a project for supporting this marginalized community in the health, productive and education fields during the period of 1989 to 1996. The community epidemiological approach was applied with remarkable results. All partners reached consensus and committed themselves to achieve four health goals:
1.That no child would die during the first four years of life.
2.That no woman die of cervical-uterine cancer.
3.That no elderly person shall be lonely or abandoned and
4.That no adolescent will have an unwanted pregnancy before the age of 20.
(Dorotea Cecchetto in Tognoni, 1997, p.p.75-110)