Plan opens operations in Puerto Cabezas
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Plan is distributing another 150 tons of humanitarian aid and will start integral operations on the medium and long term in the area of Puerto Cabezas that was affected by hurricane Felix last 5th of September.
The support consists in water, medicines and food. With this the organization totalizes a distribution of 300 tons of humanitarian aid in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) in the last two weeks.
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The passage of the powerful hurricane, catalogued as level five, devastated cultivations, houses and infrastructure in an area inhabited mainly by Miskito communities. Up to 70 percent of the houses were destroyed as well as a 100 percent of the harvests.
Plan has been concentrating on the attention of 2,000 families of fourteen communities that lost everything and anticipates the start of an integral program for medium and long term attention. At the moment, it continues being one of the NGO's who collaborates in a direct way with the affected families and in the rehabilitation of the school activities.
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The provisional balance given by the Civil Defense reveals that ten thousand houses were affected, more than twelve thousand latrines are now useless and nine thousand water wells for human consumption are contaminated. To all this, the isolation has to be added. The only routes to reach the RAAN are now by air or by seaways.
The RAAN in general, are fundamentally rural areas. The impact of the winds of 200 kilometers per hour crossed the area between 3am and 6am and destroyed 23 thousands of hectares of crops as well as six thousand hectares of fruit trees.
Plan supports the recuperation of the affected families, through the provision of sowing seeds, the rehabilitation of drinking water sources and the psycho-social support of affected children. Also, Plan will start workshops aimed to sensitize on the prevention and attention of disasters. RAAN has been catalogued by the authorities as a highly vulnerable one.
The attention that is mostly required is the quick reconstruction of the houses and the start of the rehabilitation phase. These actions will need between nine and fifteen months, emphasized Mariella Greco, director of Plan in Nicaragua.
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