Hurricane Mitch reconstruction

These are images of the process of reconstruction in Honduras in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.

 

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 version of an image, please 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 CCD staffer, right, chats with a woman in Tegucigalpa who lost her home to Mitch, part of CCD's pastoral program of working with people suffering post-traumatic stress

A girl in a Tegucigalpa neighborhood helps reconstruction work in wake of Hurricane Mitch

A girl stands by the foundation of her new home in the northern province of Santa Barbara

A government macro-shelter in Tegucigalpa for families left homeless by Hurricane Mitch

A man in Santa Barbara works building a new home to replace what he lost to Hurricane Mitch

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A woman in southern province of Valle repairs a wall of her home home damaged by flood waters of Hurricane Mitch

As part of a program to deal with post-traumatic stress, a CCD staffer, left, listens to a woman in Tegucigalpa share her story of what happened during Hurricane Mitch

As part of a program to deal with post-traumatic stress, a CCD staffer, right, listens to a woman in Tegucigalpa share her story of what happened during Hurricane Mitch

Cooperation among survivors - Nina Hernandez works on building homes of other women who lost houses to Hurricane Mitch

Dedicating a new house built in Tegucigalpa with help from ACT-CCD

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Deliana Juarez stands in front of the new house that she and other women built in Tegucigalpa with assistance from ACT-CCD

Getting ready for the roof in Santa Barbara village

In Santa Barbara community of Buen Samaritano, new housing rises to replace that lost when Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras

Men work digging foundations for new homes in Buen Samaritano, a new community that ACT-CCD is helping be built in the northern province of Santa Barbara

Nina Hernandez puts the finishing touches on the roof of her new house, constructed with help from ACT-CCD in the wake of Hurricane Mitch

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Not just houses need to be rebuilt - in Santa Barbara village, this woman builds a new stove to take place of one destroyed in disaster

Reconstruction begins by pulling nails from the scraps of what were houses before Hurricane Mitch

Two men in the northern province of Santa Barbara put new roofin on a house built in the wake of Hurricane Mitch, with assistance from ACT-CCD

Two women in Tegucigalpa, left homeless by Hurricane Mitch, work on building new homes

Two women make cement blocks in southern Honduras

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Two young women in southern city of Choluteca, Honduras, help clean mud out of a church-run home for elderly

US-based transnational banana companies take advantage of the disaster to rebuild their plantations with new technology, meaning fewer workers

 

 

 

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