Even Disaster Veterans Are Stunned By What s Happening In Honduras
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Two hurricanes destroyed bridges, roads, schools, health clinics and homes. Here is the aftermath in Protección in Honduras Santa Barbara department on Dec. 11.
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Even disaster experts are stunned by the devastation this fall in Honduras. I ve been to too many disasters all over the world, says Vlatko Uzevski, who arrived in Honduras last week from Macedonia to lead an emergency response team for Project Hope. And I have never been to a place that was struck by two hurricanes in two weeks, says Uzevski, a physician who has been doing this type of work for 15 years.
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World’s largest youth organizations, representing 250 million members, and WHO launch global mobilization to respond to disruptive impacts of COVID-19 on young people 14 December, 2020 - 19:40
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Funding for community programmes, engaging youth in solutions to address COVID-19, and convening Global Youth Summit are key features of this new mobilization
A new ground-breaking global youth mobilization was launched today to invest in and scale up youth-led solutions and engagements in response to COVID-19. The initiative was launched by an alliance of the world’s largest youth movements and organizations, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Foundation.
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Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans remain homeless after the November hurricanes. There are concerns about safety at some of the shelters and the potential of rapid coronavirus spread.