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…

Miami, December 8, 1998 - Members of the Caritas network of Catholic relief agencies announced a long-term rehabilitation strategy for Central America that will contribute $500 million to the region over the next five years. Beyond the financial commitment, Catholic…

HURRICANE MITCH -- Church World Service-sponsored medical teams are providing health care to victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Much-needed food and other material assistance from CWS is helping partners in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala in their relief and recovery…

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…

Pan American Health Organization A Report of the PAHO Emergency Task Force on Hurricane Mitch Prepared by the Division of Disease Prevention and Control The following summary is based on information received from the Ministries of Health of the Central American…

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…