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Photos: the Flooding Emergency
in Bajo Lempa
| Mangrove Radio 106.9FM, the Coordinadora's
community radio station, has broadcast news and evacuation instructions
to the thousands of families effected by flooding in the Bajo Lempa
region. |
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The Coordinadora has
dedicated its staff and resources to helping evacuees. This includes
bringing corn, beans, and other key supplies to the families in the
shelters. |
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The flooding in Ciudad Romero has
made it impossible to get pickups in or out.
The bridge connecting Ciudad Romero
with Zamorano (on the way to the paved road) appears here completely
covered with water.
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The paved road from San
Marcos to Zamorano is also flooded in many places. Here you see water
flowing across the road. |
| Here community leaders
gather to assess the situation in Ciudad Romero. |
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With water above the
knees in many places of Ciudad Romero, it was necessary to evacuate
the community, as well as the many people who had already taken refuge
there from further down stream. |
| Here, young people prepare
"Estreya del Mar," a boat to carry children, the elderly,
and the sick out of Ciudad Romero. |
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Members of the National
Emergency Committee help local youths prepare the boat to evacuate
the community's most vulnerable. |
| Thousands of people from
the Bajo Lempa communities take shelter in schools like this one.
Around the country, the disaster has damaged or destroyed 86 schools;
190 have been turned into temporary shelters. |
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Here young evacuees wait.
The Salvadoran government has been
slow to respond to the emergency, leaving local government and the
Coordinadora to scramble for food and other basic necessities.
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Photos by Leonidas Maravilla
and Juliana Baquero
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