pro-búsqueda is a nongovernmental organization from el salvador dedicated to the search of children who were disappeared during the salvadoran civil war. its full name (in spanish) is “asociación pro-búsqueda de niñas y niños desaparecidos”, which translates as the association for the search of disappeared children. since its start, in 1994, pro-búsqueda has documented hundreds of cases of children who were disappeared in the context of the salvadoran civil war, most of them through the forced disappearance by the salvadoran armed forces. through persistent research, pro-búsqueda has registered close to a thousand documented cases of disappeared children in el salvador and the organization has been able to reunite hundreds of children with their biological families. hundreds more remain unaccounted for.