Deliana Juarez stands
in front of her house in Tegucigalpa's Providencia neighborhood. Juarez'
home was built with the collaboration of other women left homeless by Mitch,
CCD, and volunteer work teams from churches in the U.S. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Fidelina Hernandez bolts
on the last of her new roof. Hernandez lives in Tegucigalpa's Providencia
neighborhood. Her home was built with the collaboration of other women
left homeless by Mitch, CCD, and volunteer work teams from churches in
the U.S. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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In Buen Samaritano,
a new community in the department of Santa Barbara, a man left homeless
by Mitch works on building his new home. Buen Samaritano is one of the
sites where CCD is helping people recover physically and emotionally from
the trauma of the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A man assures that construction
of a new house in Buen Samaritano, Santa Barbara, is done well. Buen Samaritano
is one of the sites where CCD is helping people recover physically and
emotionally from the trauma of the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A woman left homeless
by Mitch lives in the temporary shelter behind her while volunteers from
the U.S. help her and more than 270 other families build new homes in Buen
Samaritano, Santa Barbara. Buen Samaritano is one of the sites where CCD
is helping people recover physically and emotionally from the trauma of
the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Two men put the finishing
touches on the roof of a new home in Buen Samaritano, Santa Barbara. Buen
Samaritano is one of the sites where CCD is helping people recover physically
and emotionally from the trauma of the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A girl in Buen Samaritano,
Santa Barbara, surveys the site of her family's new home. Buen Samaritano
is one of the sites where CCD is helping people recover physically and
emotionally from the trauma of the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A volunteer from the
U.S. pitches in to dig a foundation for a new house in Buen Samaritano,
Santa Barbara. Buen Samaritano is one of the sites where CCD is helping
people recover physically and emotionally from the trauma of the storm.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A volunteer from the
U.S. pitches in to dig a foundation for a new house in Buen Samaritano,
Santa Barbara. Buen Samaritano is one of the sites where CCD is helping
people recover physically and emotionally from the trauma of the storm.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A girl in Tegucigalpa's
Providencia neighborhood does her part to help reconstruct after Mitch.
The Providencia neighborhood is one of the sites where CCD is helping people
recover physically and emotionally from the trauma of the storm. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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Two men installing the
rafters of a new home in Buen Samaritano, Santa Barbara. Buen Samaritano
is one of the sites where CCD is helping people recover physically and
emotionally from the trauma of the storm. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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One of several government
"macro-shelters" that together house more than ten thousand people in Tegucigalpa.
(Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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A worker on a plantation
owned by the U.S. banana giant Chiquita Brands International works on rehabilitating
a banana field. Chiquita is taking advantage of the destruction caused
by Mitch to modernize operations and, according to many workers, demand
further concessions from the government and the banana workers union. (Photo
Paul Jeffrey/CCD.)
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The government is hard
at work repairing the giant dikes that protect the agro-export banana and
palm plantations of the north coast. Many north coast residents have complained
that dikes protecting their communities don't seem as important to the
government as the ones protecting the plantations. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD)
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A CCD staff member,
the Rev. Lyda Pierce, listens to Deliana Juarez tell about what happened
in her Tegucigalpa neighborhood when Hurricane Mitch struck. Juarez lost
her house to Mitch and has rebuilt it with help from CCD. Pierce is a consultant
to CCD's ministry with persons suffering post-traumatic stress in the wake
of the disaster. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD)
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A CCD staff member,
the Rev. Lyda Pierce, listens to Deliana Juarez tell about what happened
in her Tegucigalpa neighborhood when Hurricane Mitch struck. Juarez lost
her house to Mitch and has rebuilt it with help from CCD. Pierce is a consultant
to CCD's ministry with persons suffering post-traumatic stress in the wake
of the disaster. (Photo Paul Jeffrey/CCD)
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