ADRA provides food for Guatemalan flood victims
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Flooding, landslides displace thousands |
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Adventist Disaster and Relief Agency (ADRA) Guatemala distributes hundreds of food bags with the help of local Seventh-day Adventist volunteers. The volunteers prepared the bags for Guatemalan villagers flooded out of their homes by heavy rains.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing food for more than 1,000 families in Guatemala displaced by recent flooding in the central and eastern regions of the country.
Weeks of heavy rain have destroyed homes, roads and crops, and toppled electricity and phone lines. According to the Guatemalan government, food losses total a half million dollars. Nearly 4,000 people are displaced and living in
shelters, according to the United Nations.
"Every time it begins to dry up another storm comes and it starts all over again," said Otoniel Trujillo, ADRA Guatemala director.
The food baskets provided by ADRA include enough rice, beans, oil, sugar, salt, and cornmeal to feed a family of five. The distribution, which began July 31, is expected to continue for a week.
For more information, visit www.adra.org.
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