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Hurricane Felix...

Hurricane Felix certainly made the rounds through our program areas in Central America. It passed over Programma de Reconstruccion Rural (PRR) and Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG) in Honduras then moved on to Mujeres en Accion in Guatemala and further to ADCASMUS in El Salvador. Honduras was first and although there was lots of rain it wasn't as bad as was anticipated. Here is an exerpt from the Executive Director of PAG, letting us know they are all well. Gracias a Dios!

Overall we have good news from Honduras in that Felix did not damage the country as was expected. The high wind, the heavy rains only hit down in certain areas but not to the extent that we had previously anticipated. Some low lying areas along the coast and certain valleys were flooded with rivers carrying a lot of water from the mountains; landslides did happen in some areas but there was no loss of life to my knowledge.

We moved some of our equipment, (a dozer, grader, trucks and a front end loader) to clean slides and reopen some third degree gravel roads that were partially washed out but overall there was little damage. We do not have any knowledge of homes that were washed away because of the flooding although several water systems were affected and we are seeing how to help purchase pipe and accessories to fix some of those systems.

Overall we feel quite fortunate that we and the people of Honduras were not affected too much this time around. Thank you for your prayers and concern and we will continue to be in touch as we make our way through this current hurricane season, 2007.
Blessings,
Chet

posted by World Accord Staff @ 10:40 AM