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Izote Izote History of Izote Izote was founded in 2010 in Long Island New York as an allvolunteer 501c3 organization. The inspiration to create Izote came during a medical mission trip to El Salvador in which we saw the lack of any childrens books in the schools and unavailability of cataract surgery for the poor. Izote founding members were working side by side with local Salvadoran grassroots community organizations that were working for sustainable change. We returned to the states and created Izote in order to work with the Salvadoran organizations in addressing these specific issues and to support ongoing ecological projects.