Informes

Below are excerpts from a situation report created by Peter Von der Lippe, Assistant. Director of CCF's National Office Division, currently on-site in Honduras assessing the damage and destruction of Hurricane Mitch, rendered upon CCF projects and other areas of…

ROME -- The United Nations World Food Programme has organised an emergency airlift to bring desperately needed food to 10,000 people found stranded on the banks of a river in remote eastern Honduras almost six weeks after Hurricane Mitch…

Dateline ACT Central America 6/98 By Chris Herlinger EL TOLOLAR, Nicaragua, December 8, 1998 - It is a clear, hot, pleasant day -- warm to the skin -- but eerily quiet. The foot of La Casita is stilled by a numbing,…

The United Nations food agency has organized an emergency airlift of food to 10,000 people found stranded in a remote eastern part of Honduras almost six weeks after Hurricane Mitch struck Central America. The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Consultative Group to support reconstruction and transformation after Hurricane Mitch The Inter-American Development Bank will host the first meeting of the international donor community on Dec. 10 and 11 to coordinate its support for the Central American countries…

Oxfam International Press Release and Advisory Contact: Veena Siddharth (Oxfam) - 202-393.5333 Eric Olson (WOLA) 202 797 2171 John Ruthrauff (CDE) 301 589 9383 Washington DC: The future of Central Americans, whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by Hurricane Mitch, rests…

Press Release No. 98/60 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved Honduras' request for emergency financial assistance related to natural disasters. The assistance, equivalent to SDR 47.5 million (about US$66 million), will…

The Natural Hazards Project of the Organization of American States is pleased to announce its web page at <http://www.oas.org/en/prog/nhp>. As a response to Hurricanes Mitch and Georges, the Natural Hazards Project will be distributing information through the Internet to aid…

When Mitch flooding hit the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, people living down by the river who saw the torrent coming could at least scramble up the banks to safety. But down on the floor of the Aguan valley -- amidst…

AKRON, Pa. -- Debt is drowning Central American nations, causing governments to cut or eliminate needed social programs to repay old loans. Honduras and Nicaragua, now trying to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, continue to struggle under a mountain…