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Storm Update, Wednesday, October 19th 2011 PDF Print E-mail
Written by CIS   
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 15:30

Today El Salvador woke up to more heavy rains.

 

CIS communities

 

Comasagua continues to be hit very hard.  They have over 1,000 people now evacuated.  All of the community of San Antonio has been evacuated.

This afternoon we will be delivering 22 family packages (each contains: 4 pounds of beans, 4 pounds of corn flower, 2 pounds of rice, 2 pounds of sugar, and 1 pound of salt) to our grassroots organizer in San Rafael Cedros.  Thank you to all the people who have donated already, and for those of you who have not yet, please collaborate in any way you can!  See our pictures on Facebook of volunteers, community members, English Students, and staff working together to put together and deliver aid.

 

Nation Wide

 

According to the Prensa Grafica:  Across all of the 14 departments 35,883 people are evacuated.  Classes continue to be suspended across the country.  They are using 204 schools as shelters. The country’s road system is in horrible condition, making transportation and the delivery of aid very difficult.  The Ministry of Public Works says that they are going to need $16 million just to confront the emergency (not including reconstruction costs).

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 15:40
 
Tropical Storm Update Tuesday October 18th, 2011 PDF Print E-mail
Written by CIS   
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 16:42

CIS Communities

 

Thank you to all who have donated so far, we are using the monetary donations to buy
food staples and send them to affected communities.  The pick-up just took off to Comasagua with some of the food staples.  They took 100 family food staples packets, each with 4 pounds of beans, 4 pounds of corn flower, 

malischke.carl.small2 pounds of rice, 2 pounds of sugar, and 1 pound of salt.  In addition for the shelter where over 500 people are staying we sent, 200 pounds of beans, 100 pounds of sugar, 100 pounds of rice, 100 pounds of corn flower, 5 bags of coffee, 1 sack of women cloths, 1 sack of men’s cloths, and 1 sack of children’s cloths (going to Arcoiris, a community that the CIS helped resettle after the 2001 earthquake).  The road to get into Comasagua, as so many of the highways all over the country, is full of landslides.  They will Photo by Carl Malischke

meet up with the mayor’s office on the highway, and they will then take everything into Comasagua.

 

delmyviveressmallThe community of San Luis Los Ranchos is still completely cut off.  There are two pregnant women who are very close to giving birth (one who is high risk).  Delmy, one of the CIS’s grassroots organizers, worked with community members for over 12 hours yesterday shoveling mud to try and clear a path to get the pregnant woman to the town.  Ten of the family kits are going to San Luis Los Ranchos.   The rest will be distributed by the mayor to the most needed areas.

 

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 20:40
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Tropical Storm Update-Monday October 17th, 2011 PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 16 October 2011 14:39

 

Unfortunately today, Monday October 17th, 2011 it is still raining here in El Salvador.  The country is in a national state of emergency. According to Civil Protection, as of yesterday there were 32 deaths and 20,000 people in shelters.  El Salvador is one of the most vulnerable country in the world, the infrastructure is very fragile, and as always the poorest are most affected by all of the floods, overflowing of rivers, mudslides, collapses, etc.

Last Updated on Monday, 17 October 2011 18:02
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ALERT-TROPICAL STORM CREATING DANGEROUS LANDSLIDES, LOSS OF CROPS AND DISPLACEMENT OF FAMILIES PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 16 October 2011 14:39

On Friday, October 14, the President of El Salvador declared a national state of emergency due to rains that began 8 days ago and have relentlessly continued.  Tropical Storm N. 12 has left at least 7 people dead in El Salvador.  The rains are expected to continue at least another 48 hours.  Over 7,000 people have been evacuated and are living in temporary shelters in community centers and public schools.  Many homes are flooded, landslides have left communities isolated, bridges have gone out, road are blocked, and more devastating for the long term is that subsistence farmers have lost their bean crops which are the basic staple for many Salvadoran families.

Last Updated on Monday, 17 October 2011 16:52
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Call to Action: Stand with the Anti-Mining Community in El Salvador! PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 00:00

Donate to Create Viable Alternatives to Mining and Demand Justice for Assassinated Anti-Mining Activists

 

In This Announcement:


Overview of Anti-Mining Movement

 

In the month of June 2011 the assassination of a fourth environmental activist in El Salvador, Juan Francisco Duran Ayala took place--the first since Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro Rivera, and Dora Alicia Sorto Recinos in 2009.  Since late 2010, threats and violence in the department of Cabañas have again escalated in relation to the struggle around mining in the region.  In December of 2010, Darwin Serrano, a minor who participated in the murder of Marcelo Rivera but who had been subsequently released from jail, was attacked and killed in the same community where Marcelo had been assassinated a year and a half before.  Almost a month later, Gerardo Abrego León, a key witness in the Marcelo Rivera case, was also murdered. 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:37
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