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Saturday 25 October 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
International Red Cross
Calls to Aid Central
America
PANAMA = The
Internacional Red Cross
is seeking a us$1
million fund to support
emergency operations in
Honduras, Guatemala and
Nicaragua, which have
been affected by heavy
rains, sources of that
entity reported on
Friday.
A press release
published today said
those funds, requested
in a preliminary call,
would cover buys and
distribution of food,
and hygiene items, and
kitchen utensils for
6,000 families.
Experts in disaster
management of that
institution said they
would proceed to review
the call, once new
results of the
assessments in the
nations affected by
rains and floods.
At that pace, they are
trying to respond to the
mid-term needs and help
people survive until
they can return to their
homes and start with
their lives again.
For several weeks,
tropical depressions and
storms caused hard rains
in the whole region, and
the worst damage was to
Honduras, Guatemala and
Nicaragua.
Around 215,000 people in
these three countries
lost their houses,
belongings, crops, and
means of survival, due
to floods and building
collapses. |
