IDB
REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR EL SALVADOR AFTER LATEST EARTHQUAKE, APPROVES
$20 MILLION EMERGENCY LOAN
Program
to provide temporary shelters for some 44,000 families and fund prevention
measures to stabilize hazardous hillsides
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neighborhood of Las Colinas was built on the foothills of the
Cordillera del Bálsamo mountain range, outside San Salvador.
The January 13 earthquake triggered a landslide that buried some
300 homes in that community.
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INFORMATION
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For more information on this
loan, please call project team leader Caroline Clarke at (202)
623-2852 or e-mail her at
carolinec@iadb.org
>For more information on the Madrid consultative group meetings
see here.
To view maps of the impact of the Jan. 13 earthquake in El
Salvador see here.
To access an IDB report on natural disasters in Latin America
and the Caribbean see here.
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IDB
PRESS CONTACT
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Peter Bate
(202) 623-2609
E-Mail:
peterb@iadb.org
PR2564
NR-13/01
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