Helston charity sends aid to storm-ravaged El Salvador (From Falmouth Packet)

Helston charity sends aid to storm-ravaged El Salvador

12:34pm Wednesday 18th November 2009

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Emergency disaster relief charity Shelterbox has sent aid for more than 3,000 people to El Salvador after devastating floods and mudslides last week.

The Helston based charity is responding to torrential rains which washed away homes, destroyed crops, destroyed bridges and a large part of the country’s roads network.

The disaster, linked to hurricane Ida has cost 192 people their lives and left 14,000 people living in temporary shelters after being forced to flee their homes.

the province of San Vicente has been sent 324 boxes of aid after massive landslides from the San Vicente volcano devastated homes.

The boxes containing 10-person tents and other emergency supplies are being transported overland from propositioned stocks in Panama.

ShelterBox response team member John Lacquey said: ‘We are assessing the damage and seeing where we can put some tents up. There are areas where the landscape has just been completely demolished. One man I was speaking to here was trying to explain what had happened and he just broke down in tears.”

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