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

The temporary housing program launched by El Salvador's Social Investment Fund for Local Development (FISDL) will help families that lost their homes build shelters similar to this unit, which was donated to a family in La Concordia, Usulután, by the American NGO Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF). CHF built thousands of these shelters in Central America after Hurricane Mitch hit the region in 1998.

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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
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