Honduras
Hurricane Mitch washed away years of progress in reforesting the mountain slopes along the Caribbean coast of Honduras. But the Canadian Director of the Hardwood Forest Development Project, Richard Trudel, believes the hurricane's destruction clearly demonstrated the importance of maintaining…
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The Inter-American Development Bank today announced the approval of a $1 million grant to Honduras to strengthen the country's managerial and planning capacity in the reconstruction effort following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch. The resources will strengthen those institutions responsible…
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Press Release No. 99/11 March 26, 1999 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year arrangement under the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF)1 for Honduras in an amount equivalent to…
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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…
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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…
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Miami, Florida -- Save the Children today called on Congress to heed the words of the survivors of Hurricane Mitch and immediately approve President Clinton's proposed $956 million aid package to Central America. Speaking from Miami, Carolyn Rose Avila, Save the…
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ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme today issued an urgent appeal to international donors to help finance an emergency airlift of desperately needed food to thousands of Miskito Indians on the verge of a food crisis. WFP needs…
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Washington -- The upcoming visit of President Clinton to four nations in Central America is "to view firsthand" the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch last October, and to advance the effort of the United States "to aid the region's recovery…
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - More than three months after former American Red Cross (ARC) President Elizabeth Dole visited this decimated country for a first-hand look at the devastation wrought by Hurricane Mitch, acting ARC President Steve Bullock returned this week to…
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Mercy Corps International, The Rebuilding Center and the Used Building Materials Association are sending new and used building supplies to communities devastated by Hurricane Mitch. They will celebrate the project, called "AmeriCasa," and Portland-area donations of reconstruction materials for Central…
