Rapports

"San Marcos de Curaren was in the mountains. We reached it with a 27-mule pack, along with mountain men who carried smaller packs," says Graciela Lopez Cox of her recent experience as a medical volunteer in Honduras. "The weather…

This report includes: A) Angola B) Sierra Leone C) Central and East Africa: DR Congo, Congo/Brazzaville, Burundi and Tanzania D) Guinea-Bissau E) Central America Hurricane Mitch operations. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet on…

HONDURAS : At the end of October, Hurricane Mitch pounded Central America and caused devastation damages in Honduras. One of the six million of people, who inhabit Honduras, was affected by the disaster. Country's infrastructures are highly damaged, most…

Despite a massive outpouring of international aid to Central America, nearly one million victims of Hurricane Mitch are once again threatened with extreme hardship because of a danger that food stocks will run out, the head of the United…

WHAT: CARE, the Atlanta-based international relief and development organization, received a special grant of $1.5 million from The Kresge Foundation to support relief efforts following Hurricane Mitch. The grant will be used to rebuild and repair water systems in…

Period covered : 18 December 1998 to 11 January 1999 Hurricane Mitch will not only go down in history as one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent times, but also as one of the disasters that has received…

NEWS RELEASE Media Contact: Beth Schaefer, News & Information Officer Phone: (301) 680-6355 Fax: (301) 680-6370 TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) yesterday began the distribution of more than US$126,000 of food and hygiene kits to…

Tony Melendez, the internationally renowned Christian recording artist, will bring his "Cast Your Nets" concert tour to Seattle Feb. 12 to benefit Nicaraguan survivors of Hurricane Mitch. Melendez was born without arms and plays the guitar with his toes and feet…

News Release No. 99/2065/LAC WASHINGTON, January 7, 1999 - The World Bank today approved a US$9 million equivalent International Development Association (IDA) credit to address long term forestry issues in Nicaragua and to start reforestation and land rehabilitation activities in…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Aid Minister Pierre Schori on Wednesday appealed for more international aid to help Honduras recover from Hurricane Mitch, saying the country's villages looked worse than war-torn Sarajevo. "I have never seen anything…