From FOL Comalapa Public Affairs ‎

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The U.S. Navy’s Forward Operating Location (FOL) ‎Comalapa, El Salvador, joined efforts with Project Handclasp for the second time in one ‎week to carry out a community relation project Dec. 14th at the Clinica ‎Asitancial Iglesia Nazarret outside the city limits of San Salvador, El Salvador.‎
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Project Handclasp is a U.S. Navy program designed to collect and distribute donated ‎items to people in need. Project Handclasp relies on donations from individuals, ‎organizations, and corporations to collect items, including medical supplies, toys, books, ‎and hygiene items. These items are then transported worldwide with the assistance of ‎U.S. military transports, such as U.S. Navy ships and U.S. Air Force planes.‎

FOL Comalapa sailors participated earlier in the week with a COMREL project at an ‎orphanage in conjunction with Project Handclasp, bringing an early Christmas to the ‎children of  “Hogar Del Nino” Orphanage.  ‎

For this project, the FOL Sailors delivered two donated Project Handclasp pallets of ‎medical supplies to the Clinica Assitancial Iglesia Nazarret.  The clinic is a non-profit ‎organization run by the church Iglesia Nazarret with doctors and other medical personnel ‎who donate their time to provide free medical assistance to the local poor community.  ‎

The volunteers from the FOL spent about an hour unloading and storing the needed ‎medical supplies that were delivered to the clinic.‎

‎ Cmdr. Charles Groves, FOL Comalapa commanding officer, helped deliver the supplies. ‎‎“This holiday season is about giving; the only thing this costs us was time.  I was very ‎happy to give my time for such a worthy cause.” ‎

FOL Comalapa’s primary mission is to provide logistical support to aerial counter-drug ‎aircraft and crews from U.S. military and government law enforcement organizations, ‎and promoting Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) like COMREL events in the El ‎Salvador area.   ‎