Informes

Con la finalidad de subsanar los problemas alimentarios que afronta la población en algunos municipios en situación de pobreza, el gobierno ha implementado un plan de trabajo por alimentos que permita a la vez, promover obra p=FAblica básica a…

by Evelyn López GUATEMALA CITY. A week after the Government's declaration of a state of calamity in the areas of Jocotán y Camotán in Guatemala, due to drought, World Vision Guatemala has begun coordinating with other organizations to provide assistance…

The most recent information indicates that WFP will assist 15,900 families in 299 communities in 7 priority provinces. In Jocotan and Camotan, two of the most affected districts, serious health problems are now affecting people, particularly children. WFP is coordinating…

By Brenda Solares The Guatemalan government has declared a state of calamity after the deaths of 40 adults and children due to lack of food. Cases of malnourishment and even fatalities among children occur every year in the east of…

The Federal Foreign Office has in the past few days donated a total of DM 439,000 to German relief agencies to help victims of the drought in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. In two severely affected regions of Nicaragua the…

by Xavier Castellanos, Guatemala City It takes approximately four hours from the capital city of Guatemala to drive to the department of Chiquimula, in the west of Guatemala. Once there, to reach the municipalities of Jocotán and Comatán takes another…

By Greg Brosnan JOCOTAN, Guatemala, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Little more than skin and bones herself, 16-year-old Teodora Gutierrez struggled to bathe her baby daughter's stick-like limbs and protruding stomach in a hospital sink. "For five or six days at a…

MEXICO CITY, Sep 4, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Food assistance provided by the World Food Program (WFP) has reached on Tuesday the hands of the inhabitants in the Guatemalan municipalities of Camotan and Jotocan, where undernourishment for lack…

Rains in June were 60 percent lower than normal and some 8 percent of the area planted to maize and beans in the central and eastern departments of the country was lost. About 13 000 subsistence farms reportedly suffered…

Tres meses sin lluvias generan hambre en Nicaragua, Honduras y Guatemala FILADELFIA--El Comité de Servicio de los Amigos (American Friends Service Committee) está haciendo un llamado para recoger contribuciones que ayuden a aliviar la severa hambruna que ha causado la sequía…