CERF allocates more than $1.5 million for emergency assistance to people affected by floods and landslides in Honduras

Aid workers providing emergency food assistance to people affected by heavy rains [Photo: WFP]

30 October 2008: Heavy rainfalls affected most of Honduras territory during the two last weeks. The interaction of Tropical Depression 16, formed on 13 October, with a low depression current accompanied by a swell in the Pacific coast, and later on 17 October a low depression stationary zone in the Gulf of Honduras generated the first damages. 

The Government of Honduras announced a state of emergency on 20 October and formally requested humanitarian assistance from the UN System.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) is improving shelter conditions, providing housing materials and non-food items to 3,000 families in the storm-affected zones of Honduras. World Food Programme (WFP) is delivering food commodities to distributions points while providing supplementary rations to malnourished children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups. Forty thousand people will benefit.

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is providing equipment and supplies for the rehabilitation of water supply systems, wells and sanitation facilities such as latrines while also supplying people in shelters with water disinfection products. Clean water and sanitation will benefit over 12,000 people. 

[Last Update: 24 November 2008]