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Album Name: Guatemalan Hurricane Relief Return to Albums
Album Date: Dec 1, 2005
Description: Hundreds of Mayans have disappeared in mudslides that wiped out their villages. While immediate needs have been met famine is a very real concern as many of the survivors were subsistence farmers. Major efforts are being made to get the children back into school.
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The slide started at the top of the volcano and brought with it full-sized trees and huge boulders. In some places it was estimated to be 15 feet deep. The mud stopped at the now deserted Hospitalito Atitlan which has had to move to new quarters in Santiago. Residents of Panabaj trying to clear the mud and debris from their simple homes some two months after the mudslide. This is home to 400 families who lost everything in the Panabaj mudslide which buried over 1,000 people including 90 children. This school adjacent to the slide area accomodated 25 homeless families and will hopefully accomodate the children from Panabaj when school starts again in January.
A medical resident volunteering at the Hospitalito Atitlan in Santiago is delighted with much needed donated medical equipment. A doctor from the National Hospital in Antigua is given medications as requested by Alma Olsen, President-Elect of the Rotary Club of La Antigua. Alexander and his family lost half of their house in the village of San Felipe a few miles from Antigua. A woman in Panapaj sits with her remaining possessions. One of many mudslides around Lake Atitlan.
A volunteer helping to unload and distribute supplies.        
   

 

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