The following excerpt is from an August 11, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – At least five people died and another 252 were evacuated after several mudslides were caused by torrential rains, Guatemalan authorities said Monday. The country’s emergency [...]

The following excerpt is from an August 5, 2010 article published by CRIEnglish.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The United Nations International Organization for Migration (OIM) has delivered 50,000 U.S. dollars in aid to Guatemala which was hit by Tropical Storm Agatha in June, according to news arriving on Wednesday. [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 24, 2010 article published by American Quarterly.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. While the rest of the world stared down the bottomless hole in Guatemala City’s Zone 2, the small town of San Antonio Palopó around Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan, was digging its way [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 23, 2010 article published by People’s Daily Online.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala’s Agriculture Minister Juan Alfonso De Leon said the nation’s farmers need 372 million quetzals (around 47 million dollars) in aid to rebuild after last month’s Tropical Storm Agatha, news [...]

The following is an announcement from Mayan Families (www.mayanfamilies.org).  You can learn more about this group, and their rebuilding and aid efforts in the Lake Atitlan region on their website. “Dear Friends, I have just had a visit from Lic. Juan Carlos who is the head of the Education dept.here in Solola.  He is asking [...]

Wuqu’ Kawoq (www.wuqukawoq.org) will have a medical team in the following areas in the coming week: 6/19/10 – Chirijuyu’; 6/22/10 – Santa Catarina; 6/23/10 – Paya’; 6/25/10 – Paquip/Saquitacaj; 6/26/10 – Caserio Nuevo.  To contact them, please email wuqu.kawoq@gmail.com.

Wuqu’ Kawoq, June 4, 2010: “If you are a community-based organization in the Lake Atitlan or Central Highlands region, we are eager to collaborate and may be able to help you. We can provide assistance with securing water and food supplies and medications. Our health care teams can also provide medical care. We will have [...]

The group, Safe Homes for Children is currently seeking partners to help the homeless in Chutinamit, in the Lake Atitlan region.  In particular, these families are in immediate need of tents for shelter, food, blankets, shoes, diapers, soap, shampoo, and pure water.  Safe Homes operates out of San Andres Semetebaj and the specific group of [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 15, 2010 post on the Common Hope blog.  To read the post in its entirety, please click here. Common Hope returned to regular operations on June 2 after a week of emergency relief mode, but people in the affected communities are still living the aftermath of tropical storm [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 14, 2010 article published by Reuters.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY, June 14 (Reuters) – Rebuilding in Guatemala after a devastating tropical storm last month could cost up to $1 billion and the country must prove to international donors that it [...]

A Seattle event to raise awareness and relief funds to benefit victims of the recent natural disasters is going to be held Thursday June 17th, 6-7:30 pm, at the Seattle International Foundation’s (SIF) offices at 909 NE Boat Street, Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98105.  The event is being co-hosted by Dr. Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, director [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 11, 2010 article published by the UN News Centre.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. 11 June 2010 – United Nations aid agencies and their partners in Guatemala today appealed for nearly $14.5 million to provide relief to survivors of Agatha, the first tropical [...]

Common Hope’s (www.commonhope.org) social workers continue to meet with individual families in the hardest hit areas to assess specific needs, and over the next two weeks they will meet with all families. Common Hope’s psychologists have also begun work in affected communities, particularly with children, helping them to process the destruction of the storm. From [...]

Current as of June 9 – Wuqu’ Kawoq (www.wuqukawoq.org):  Atencion medica in the coming week: 6/10/10 – Paya’; 6/11/10 – Paquip; 6/12/10 – Santa Apolonia; 6/14/10 – Santa Catarina Palopo.  Please visit their website often for updates on their work in area villages.

The following excerpt is from a June 9, 2010 article published by the BBC.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. More than 100 emergency aid relief boxes from a Cornwall-based charity are being dispatched to Central America to help victims of a tropical storm. The first consignment of 112 boxes is [...]

June 9, 2010:  An update from As Green As It Gets (www.asgreenasitgets.org):  “Hello All,  We just wanted to drop you a note with a brief update on the Agatha Storm disaster.  The request for help has been very good and the support has been strong, but we still need your help.  The money raised so [...]

As it is the beginning of Tropical Storm/Hurricane season, I thought I would offer up a link to the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center.  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml Thankfully, all looks quiet for Central America at the moment….