NEWS: CIS responds with Food & Hygiene Baskets in Comasagua
Thanks to your support (communities, churches, organizations and many individuals), the CIS continues delivering baskets of food and supplies to families affected by COVID-19, Tropical Storm Amanda and Cyclone Cristobal.
Little did we know that in the middle of the pandemic, on May 31st, two major tropical storms would hit. Tropical Storm Amanda, followed by Storm Cristobal, left families facing the loss of their belongings, food, crops, and—in some worst-case scenarios—their homes and human life. Some families continue to live in high-risk areas. Over 30 people lost their lives due to mudslides in El Salvador. The rains continued for 10 full days and nights.
In Comasagua: Bellos Horizontes and San Luis los Ranchos community spent seven days without electricity. The drinking water systems collapsed. The access roads were blocked by landslides. The residents have been working to open the street. In San Luis los Ranchos at least 11 families’ homes are completely flooded out.
The CIS is raising funds to get food and supplies to families affected by COVID-19, Tropical Storm Amanda and Cyclone Cristobal. $50 will feed a family for two weeks.
Within one week following Tropical Storm Amanda, the CIS was able to get baskets of food and hygiene and cleaning supplies to affected families, including the elderly and people with disabilities, thanks to PeaceHealth and Rainbow of Hope for Children. Scholarship students also gave a talk on hygiene and masks.
The CIS scholarship committee in Comasagua has requested attention for the family of scholarship student Francisco in San Luis Los Ranchos, Comasagua, affected by COVID19 and Tropical Storm Amanda. His family is in need of food, medicine and construction material to rebuild their house that is falling down. Francisco is in need of special medicines that cost $90. The family had to flee their previous home due to threats to the teenage sons.
Report and photos are from San Luis Los Ranchos, Comasagua and La Libertad, thanks to CIS promoter Mery Linarez and William Alfaro, systems engineer, graduate of CIS scholarship program and current committee member.
Thanks to PeaceHealth and Rainbow of Hope for Children for donating to CIS to get food baskets to the elderly and families of people with disabilities and this time affected by COVID and Tropical Storm Amanda. Scholarship students gave a brief talk on hygiene and masks and helped the families carry home food and cleaning and hygiene supplies.
Communities are devastated from being without work since March due to COVID-19 and now further affected with damage to homes, belongings, loss of crops and illnesses due to nine-day Tropical Storm Amanda. The CIS and our associates have built 65 dignified homes in Romero Community and 65 in Paso Puente with FONAVIPO that have been spared massive destruction from the storm and had a home where they could be in quarantine. Further aid is needed.
