Rapports

Relief/rehabilitation projects requiring urgent funding Implementing agencies: FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, WFP and IFRC as of: 26 March 1999 Country/Project Cost in US$ Agency Honduras Provision of seeds and chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) 5,000,000 FAO Prevention and control of potential epidemics vectors diseases 400,000 UNICEF Management of latrines and solid waste 175,000 UNICEF Basic services…

Paris, March 25 {No.99-59} - UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor today announced a plan for immediate action to assist Central American countries affected by hurricane Mitch. "Since this tragedy, UNESCO has allocated US$185.000 from its emergency aid fund to the…

COLOMBIA It has been raining heavily for the last few weeks, bringing misery to families who were made homeless by the earthquake last January. Save the Children has helped set up 127 large community kitchens in slum areas. These are run…

for technical assistance to Central America In order to rebuild their economy devastated by Hurricane Mitch last autumn, the Group of Central American countries (GRUCA) this week presented a comprehensive programme of technical cooperation to potential donor countries, totalling $6…

appeal no. 29/98 (operation extended to 30 June) situation report no. 3 period covered: 01 December 1998 - 12 March 1999 Red Cross emergency relief to those hardest-hit by Hurricane Georges in late September 1998 was almost over in February, having reached…

Latest Developments Many families continue to live and work in precarious areas within a landscape drastically altered by MITCH. The threat of epidemics (particularly cholera) remains ever present. Living conditions, debris and contaminated water and mud continue to pose a…

UMCOR has sent 10 containers of food, blankets, and water to Colombia for victims of the earthquakes, and another container is on the way this week. The Methodist Church in Bogota has begun a project to assist 8,000 displaced…

by Chung Mei Lee By looking at him, Ricardo Lopez's five-foot-five-inch frame doesn't seem strong enough to resist a raging current of water, let alone carry people across rivers with water levels reaching up to his chest. But that's exactly…

Latest Developments Five weeks after the earthquake of 25 January, the official death toll now stands at 1,185, with a further 731 people still unaccounted for. Approximately 160,000 people are officially homeless, the majority in urban areas. 90,500 homes in…

CWS construction teams hard at work in Honduras helping communities to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Mitch. So far this month, a team from Bloomsburg, PA, has worked with the 12 de Febrero community to excavate and pour…