-21complied with adequately. b) Proposed by the State 4. Ida María Gropp de García, former President of the Santa Tecla SOS Children’s Village She is German and has lived in El Salvador since 1968. In addition to her work as a translator, as of 1979, she began to work in the Santa Tecla SOS Children’s Village, located in La Libertad Department. In 1982, she was elected president of the board of directors of this village. The vision of SOS Children’s Villages was “to prove all the children in the world with a family where they c[ould] grow up with respect, love and responsibility.” On June 6, 1982, the Salvadoran Red Cross female volunteers (damas voluntarias) brought six children, aged from twenty days to eight years to the Santa Tecla Village. According to comments made by the director of the Village to the witness, the Red Cross female volunteers said the children came from the area of Chalatenango where there had been an attack by the Armed Forces; that the latter had found the children alone and had delivered them to the Red Cross. However, they did not give the Village any document with information on these children. In the Village they had to fill in a questionnaire when each child arrived, with information on their health and whether anything was known about their family. She did not know whether these children talked about what had happened to them, but she did know that one of the girls wrote down what had happened. The Villages registered the boys and girls in the mayors’ offices; when they did not know the name of the children, they gave them a name, and when they did not know the date of birth, they estimated their age. In 1984, a woman came to the Village representing the refugees in Mesa Grande, Honduras and looking for one of the girls who had been brought by the Red Cross female volunteers on June 6, 1982. On January 15, 1994, a truck with 30 people arrived at the Village, led by someone from the Chalatenango Human Rights Commission, to see the children who had arrived in 1982. SOS Children’s Villages never gave up any of the children they had received for adoption, because the philosophy was to take care of the children permanently until they were able to look after themselves. The SOS Villages did not try and find the children’s families because it was very dangerous during the war and because it was not their responsibility; however, sometimes the next of kin arrived looking for children and, at times, they could not refuse to hand over the children, but they had some bad experiences because the parents later abandoned them. The only entity that asked them for information on the children who were brought to the Villages as a result of the armed conflict was Pro-Búsqueda, none of the State authorities asked them for information or exercised any supervision. The SOS Villages have no connection with the State. 5. Jorge Alberto Orellana Osorio, retired Army officer