World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

More than a month after the passage of Tropical Depression 12E, families who were staying with relatives are returning and rebuilding their homes. They are also repairing roads with their own resources.
 

Remains of the destroyed bridge between Gazacapán Taxisco in the department of Santa Rosa. This bridge is the only link between the department of Escuintla and the border with El Salvador.
 

Plantations as corn, beans, grain sorghum, forage grasses and tobacco fields were covered by the floods and were destroyed.
 

The rain left a large amount of standing water. There have been several reports of dengue fever and gastrointestinal diseases due to contaminated wells.
 

Margarita Morales, member of the Community Development Council of "Las Pozas" Village in Chiquimulilla, shows a High Energy Biscuit (HEB) ration delivered in the first hours of the emergency. She says that "biscuits arrived just in time. We could not cook anything since we didn't have any fuel or natural gas."
 

Coordination meeting with local partners and government counterparts and technicians to organize response actions and food distributions.