Students from all areas of MIIS will form a team and deploy to a rural area of El Salvador to practice skills and expand their knowledge base in a real-life setting with a local NGO in El Salvador. All work is conducted in Spanish. They will plan and implement a variety of tasks during the three-week Winterim period. Illustrative tasks include but are not limited to needs assessment, collecting environmental and socioeconomic data from specific communities, developing and conducting ESL classes for adults and/or youth, advising on local business plans, and developing a project for future teams from MIIS. Students can receive four units of academic credit for their work. Additionally they can meet the language requirement for 4 units of Spanish-language for participating in this program, based on standards set by MIIS. The final product of the course is a bilingual team report.