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Boarding airplane in Tegucigalpa bound for Wampusirpi. Note that Rotary
District 5960 sponsors AirServ, the nonprofit organization that flew us. (L to R) TV
cameraman Wilmer Sánchez, Felipe Morales, Orlanda and Warren Post.
Aerial view of Wampusirpi.
Dugout canoe bringing relief goods upriver. It's a 19 hour journey in canoe
to Wampusirpi.
Villagers awaiting food distribution outside Wampusirpi mission.
As each head of household enters the mission, he first reports in and is
checked off on a previously prepared census.
Each family is allocated a proportional share of the donation based upon
family size.
Each family's ration is weighed and portioned in the presence of the head of
household and the village emergency committee.
Once portioned, the head of household signs for his rations.
Children in Wampusirpi during a toy distribution.
Typical household in Kurpa, 2 hours upstream from Wampusirpi.
Mothers and children in Kurpa.
Patuca River as seen from a dugout canoe.
What looks like straw on the riverbank are thick tree trunks washed ashore by
the flood.
3 months after Mitch, many remain homeless and live under makeshift tarps. My
photogenic thumb appears at bottom.
Typical homeless family. Note the shy little girl in the background.
High water mark 12 feet up on the Kurpa schoolhouse wall. The schoolhouse is
on a bluff 40 feet above the normal level of the river.
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