Teofilo Lopez, a resident of the 12 de Febrero village in
Choluteca, near the border with Nicaragua, stands atop two meters of sand
that cover his village's fields as a result of Hurricane Mitch. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Lopez, a resident of the 12 de Febrero village in Choluteca,
near the border with Nicaragua, stands where her house used to be before
it was demolished by Hurricane Mitch. She holds her 2-year old grandson
José.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Albertina Gunera and her five children stand where their house
once stood in the village of 12 de Febrero, Choluteca, near the border
with Nicaragua. Dried mud today covers all that remains of her home. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman and two children walk through the village of 12 de
Febrero, Choluteca, near the border with Nicaragua. The home behind them
was damaged by the flood waters of Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Teofilo Lopez, a resident of the 12 de Febrero village in Choluteca,
near the border with Nicaragua, examines what's left of his crops after
the area was covered with sand by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of 12 de Febrero recover roof tiles from their damaged
homes and prepare them for transport to the site of new homes they are
building. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Teofilo Lopez, a resident of the 12 de Febrero village in Choluteca,
near the border with Nicaragua, examines what's left of a house foundation
after the area was flooded by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of 12 de Febrero recover roof tiles from their damaged
homes and prepare them for transport to the site of new homes they are
building. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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CCD staff and volunteers sort through material aid received from
abroad at the CCD warehouse in Choluteca. The materials are sorted and
then dispatched to needy communities left without food by Hurricane Mitch.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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CCD staff and volunteers sort through material aid received from
abroad at the CCD warehouse in Choluteca. The materials are sorted and
then dispatched to needy communities left without food by Hurricane Mitch.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Nery Cruz, a resident of Tierras Morenas in the department of Valle,
repairs her home damaged by the flood waters of Hurricane Mitch. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Destruction along the Choluteca River in Tegucigalpa.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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School children cleaning mud out of the Catholic church-run La
Esperanza home for old people in the city of Choluteca.(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Man in the city of Choluteca begins to dig out what remains of
his home after Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A recently finished bridge over the Choluteca River in the southern
department of Choluteca. The floods caused by Hurricane Mitch washed away
most of the structure, leaving a span unharmed. The river channel also
moved to the south several hundred meters. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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In Choluteca, a man injured by a land mine along the Honduran-Nicaraguan
border is prepared for air transport to a hospital in the capital. He was
one of five people injured when they set off an unexploded land mine left
behind in the 80s by the U.S.-backed Contras. Thousands of land mines were
washed loose by the violent floods provoked by Hurricane Mitch. 18 November
1998. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman and her two children in Colonia Soto. Their house disappeared
in a gigantic mudslide provoked by Hurricane Mitch. They're now living
in a makeshift hut at the edge of the mudslide. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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People in the February 12 village in Choluteca clean mud out of
a well that was flooded by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Tina Manley/CCD.)
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A house filled with mud in the February 12 village in Choluteca.
(Photo Tina Manley/CCD.)
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A family in the February 12 village in Choluteca cleans mud out
of their home. (Photo Tina Manley/CCD.)
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Women from the village of El Porvenir, where Hurricane Mitch destroyed
several houses and mudslides continue to threaten others, receive emergency
food rations from CCD in the village of La Laguna. Both villages are in
the municipality of Protección. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Children displaced by Hurricane Mitch in Las Delicias, a village
in the municipality of Protección in the department of Santa Barbara.
The families of these children fled the village of Corralitos when Mitch
unleashed giant mudslides that damaged several houses and threatened many
more in their village. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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