World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Cecia Luis, 18 years old, and her siblings sit at a flooded bus stop in the town of Las Trochas. "Our home is still flooded and all we can do is to open the front and back door so the river water can flow. We have no other place to go," she said. Cecia added that her father is a carpenter who can't work due to the current situation. WFP has distributed food to families affected by floods in this community.

This house belongs to the Méndez Alvarado family and it is completely flooded. Two weeks ago they had to move to a relative´s house to wait until the flooding subsides.
 

Children are the most vulnerable group in these situations.

Families lost their most valuable possessions. The mattress and school books you see here will be difficult to recover for their low income owners. 

WFP staff and journalists move around on tractors in difficult access areas to reach the most affected communities.

Subsistence farming land is completely flooded. Crops intended for harvest in September were ruined and food reserves are limited or non-existant.

In the community of “Las Trochas 11” some 90 families affected by floods had been assisted with food. Their land has suffered three periods of flooding since May. Houses and plantations are all damaged, and water levels have not gone down.
 

Recycling: once empty, WFP food bags are filled with sand to make a levee. 

The people of Santa Odilia community are isolated. The main road was completely destroyed.

The main streets of  Santa Odilia and its football field are underwater. The water level in the community is knee-high.