February 13, 2001

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

In Joya del Tigre, a mountain hamlet in the coffee growing region of Usulután, the January 13 earthquake destroyed or severely damaged 114 of its 115 houses. Most of the homes were built with adobe bricks and heavy roof tiles that could not withstand the tremor. The village's inhabitants improvised tents among the rubble in their small plots.

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INFORMATION

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.

PHOTOS

A landslide buried the hillside community of Las Colinas, nar San Salvador (Photo by Dana Martin)

The earthquake razed adobe houses in this Usulután hamlet (Photo by Peter Bate)

The Salvadoran temporary housing program will help families build shelters similar to this one in Usulután.(Photo by Peter Bate)

MAP

Map of El Salvador

IDB PRESS CONTACT

Peter Bate
(202) 623-2609
E-Mail:
peterb@iadb.org
PR2564
NR-13/01