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threads.gif (1055 bytes)Surfing the Internet at Multinet Internet Cafe in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo courtesy of Stanley Marrder

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1733-00x.jpg (43691 bytes)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.
1733-06x.jpg (33882 bytes)Aerial view of Wampusirpi.
1735-03x.jpg (32932 bytes)Dugout canoe bringing relief goods upriver. It's a 19 hour journey in canoe to Wampusirpi.
1733-18x.jpg (46668 bytes)Villagers awaiting food distribution outside Wampusirpi mission.
1733-13x.jpg (101789 bytes)As each head of household enters the mission, he first reports in and is checked off on a previously prepared census.
1733-15x.jpg (53376 bytes)Each family is allocated a proportional share of the donation based upon family size.
1680-26x.jpg (49837 bytes)Each family's ration is weighed and portioned in the presence of the head of household and the village emergency committee.
1680-24x.jpg (50633 bytes)Once portioned, the head of household signs for his rations.

1733-11x.jpg (66242 bytes)Children in Wampusirpi during a toy distribution.

1733-31x.jpg (45777 bytes)Typical household in Kurpa, 2 hours upstream from Wampusirpi.

1733-34x.jpg (87474 bytes)Mothers and children in Kurpa.

1733-28x.jpg (33354 bytes)Patuca River as seen from a dugout canoe.

1733-25x.jpg (34389 bytes)What looks like straw on the riverbank are thick tree trunks washed ashore by the flood.

1733-27x.jpg (38298 bytes)3 months after Mitch, many remain homeless and live under makeshift tarps. My photogenic thumb appears at bottom.

1733-36x.jpg (94872 bytes)Typical homeless family. Note the shy little girl in the background.
1733-29x.jpg (42078 bytes)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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