Hurricane Mitch destruction

These are images of the first few days of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.

 

Photographs by Paul Jeffrey/ACT-CCD. Move the cursor directly over an image to see a full caption. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger, higher resolution version of each photo. The photographs can be used at no cost by ACT-related groups supporting reconstruction work in Honduras. For other uses, or if you need a higher quality copy of the image, contact photos@ccdhonduras.org. The larger photos may have difficulty loading in some versions of Netscape Navigator. They will load normally in Internet Explorer. We're sorry for the problem, and are working on solving it.

 

A Tegucigalpa family, that took refuge in an evangelical church, stands where their home stood before Hurricane Mitch

Albertina Gunera and some grandchildren stand where her home once stood in southern village of 12 de febrero - Mitch washed the house away

Compounded by deforestation and unjust land tenure, the waters of Hurricane Mitch brought destruction to Honduras

Downtown Tegucigalpa was left a shambles by Hurricane Mitch

Fidelina Lopez and grandson stand where her house used to be in southern Honduran village of 12 de febrero

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Hurricane Mitch caused several Tegucigalpa neighborhoods to slide into the Choluteca River

Hurricane Mitch left behind a permanently changed landscape

Man injured by land mine washed loose by Mitch is evacuated from Choluteca by airplane

Residents of remote Santa Barbara village inspect wall knocked down my mudslide

Several Tegucigalpa neighborhoods slid into the Choluteca River during the onslaught of Hurricane Mitch

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Surveying the damage left by Hurricane Mitch in downtown Tegucigalpa

Teofilo Lopez, a farmer in southern Honduras, inspects the top of his corn crop after it was buried under tons of silt washed downhill by Hurricane Mitch

The poor began salvaging what they could from the disaster as soon as possible, as here a man digs bottles from meters of mud that covered Tegucigalpa

 

 

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