Girls in Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman in Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Residents of Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. Community
members are building their homes and other community services with assistance
from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Two women in Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. The woman
on the right is one of the community's leaders. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Two women in Buen Samaritano
("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced by Hurricane
Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara. The woman
on the right is building a cooking stove. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A child pitches in in
Buen Samaritano ("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272 families displaced
by Hurricane Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department of Santa Barbara.
Community members are building their homes and other community services
with assistance from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A girl reaches for a
tortilla in Buen Samaritano ("The Good Samaritan"), a new village of 272
families displaced by Hurricane Mitch, near Nueva Frontera in the department
of Santa Barbara. Community members are building their homes and other
community services with assistance from the Catholic Church and CCD. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Hernandez, a resident of Tegucigalpa, works
building new homes for herself and other women who lost their homes to
Hurricane Mitch. Their project is being assisted by CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Hernandez (left) and Ledy Zelaya (right),
residents of Tegucigalpa, work building new homes for themselves and other
women who lost their homes to Hurricane Mitch. Their project is being assisted
by CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Hernandez (left), a resident of Tegucigalpa,
works building new homes for herself and other women who lost their homes
to Hurricane Mitch. Their project is being assisted by CCD and groups of
volunteers from the U.S. Here she shows Wesley Bornemann, 21, a Presbyterian
from South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, how to bend steel rods. (Photo Paul
Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Hernandez (left), a resident of Tegucigalpa,
works building new homes for herself and other women who lost their homes
to Hurricane Mitch. Their project is being assisted by CCD and groups of
volunteers from the U.S. Here she shows Darlene Little of Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, how to bend steel rods. Little is moderator of the Northumberland
Presbytery. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A program sponsored by Church World Service in the
U.S. and the Christian Commission for Development in Honduras has brought
together U.S. volunteers with victims of Hurricane Mitch. In Tegucigalpa,
Honduran Juanita Pozzo (left) works with Sue Oberkircher, a Presbyterian
from Danville, Pennsylvania, digging foundations for homes for single mothers
on the edge of Tegucigalpa. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Brett Shumaker, 27, of Chicago, Illinois, digs a
foundation in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Shumaker came to Honduras as part
of a Presbyterian Church (USA) delegation to build homes for single mothers
who lost their houses to Hurricane Mitch. The work team came under a program
jointly program sponsored by Church World Service in the U.S. and the Christian
Commission for Development in Honduras. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Jennifer Hanson (right), a Roman Catholic from
Dorset,
Vermont, USA, helps rebuild housing destroyed by
Hurricane Mitch in the southern Honduran village of 12 de Febrero. Working
with her is Mateo Lopez (left), a resident of the village. Hanson was a
member of the first construction brigade sent to Honduras under a program
jointly sponsored by Church World Service in the United States and the
Christian Commission for Development (CCD) in Honduras. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Two volunteers from the United States help
rebuild housing
destroyed by Hurricane Mitch in the southern Honduran
village of 12 de Febrero. Gordon Smith (left), a Roman Catholic, and Nathan
Merrill (center), a United Methodist, help residents of the village pour
a foundation for the first of ten homes to be rebuilt in the village. Both
are from Granville, NY. Their group was the first construction brigade
sent under a program jointly sponsored by Church World Service and CCD.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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William Vanderminden (left), a United Methodist engineer
from Queensburg, NY, learns the fine points of Honduran construction techniques
from Hector Paz. Vanderminden came to Honduras to rebuild houses destroyed
by Hurricane Mitch. He was a member of the first construction brigade sent
to the storm-ravaged country under a program jointly sponsored by Church
World Service in the United States and CCD in Honduras. Paz is a carpenter
for CCD. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Ron Barrett (right) gets fresh cement from Bill Roberts
(left) for the foundation of the first home to be built for hurricane victims
in Honduras under a program jointly sponsored by Church World Service and
CCD. Both men are United Methodists from Granville, New York. Their construction
brigade began building ten houses for people left homeless by Hurricane
Mitch in the southern Honduran village
of 12 de Febrero. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A girl from the village of Los Angelitos carries
firewood for her family. Her village is the one of the first sites of construction
of more than 2,500 homes sponsored by CCD.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Women from the village of 12 de Febrero and neighboring
communities make cement blocks for the construction of new houses to replace
those damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Mitch.(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A rural resident who lost his home to Hurricane Mitch
makes cement blocks for constructing new houses as part of a project sponsored
by the Christian Commission for Development in Honduras. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A boy in the village of 12 de Febrero in southern
Honduras. This community is the first site where CCD is helping people
construct homes destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman from a village in southern Honduras makes
cement blocks for the construction of new houses to replace those damaged
or destroyed by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Women from the village of 12 de Febrero and neighboring
communities make cement blocks for the construction of new houses to replace
those damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Mitch. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman carries water for the manufacture of cement
blocks to be used in building new homes to replace those damaged or destroyed
by Hurricane Mitch in villages along Honduras' southern border. The homes
are part of a project sponsored by the Christian Commission for Development.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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