Reports

From WEEKLY NEWS 09/99 5 March 1999 Five months after Hurricane Georges ripped through the Caribbean, a major Red Cross relief effort continues in the Dominican Republic with the arrival this week of the first shipment of foodstuffs as part of…

This report includes: A) Angola B) Sierra Leone C) Sudan D) Ethiopia E) Somalia F) Mozambique G) Tanzania H) Latin America: Honduras and Colombia. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet on the WFP…

Reportes Generales Marzo/5/1999, La Dirección Nacional para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (DNPAD) entregó la evaluación técnica de infraestructura a marzo 03 de 1999. Ene/29/1999, Seg=FAn reconocimientos de la comisión de campo del OSSO, la mayoría de las vías en…

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…

"ADRA Stories From Around the World" Media Contact: Beth Schaefer, News & Information Officer, ADRA/I Phone: (301) 680-6355 - Fax: (301) 680-6370 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST by Darcy de León It was a slightly cloudy Thursday afternoon as Juana Casco was…

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…

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…

Few days ago the Colombian Red Cross organized a whole week of activities to support the recovery of 7.500 children from the most affected areas of the Colombian coffee growing region hit by the recent earthquake. In a joint…

From IFRC WEEKLY NEWS 08/99 The Cuban Red Cross has forged strong ties with the German and Spanish National Societies through their assistance vulnerable people hit by drought in the eastern provinces of Cuba, in the shape of a large…

From IFRC WEEKLY NEWS 08/99 More than 350 experts from affected countries, donor organizations, the United Nations, and the media attended an evaluation meeting on Hurricanes Georges and Mitch organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), held 16-19 February…