PLEASE DONATE towards relief for Tropical Depression 12E in El Salvador.   Here are a few organizations. Habitat for Humanity – long after the disaster is over and forgotten, they will be rebuilding Sister cities:   helping with immediate relief effort.  Cities in the U.S. sponsor/sister with towns here. Oxfam:  a tried and true humanitarian name. Urgent needs:    [...]

Well that explains the recent injection of dollar coins into the Salvadoran currency: They don’t want em’ up north! We’re happy to take lots of used and unwanted goods off our brother’s hands from up north, and this is another example.  Maybe the gold-colored coin will be better loved here.

Storm-related statistics on Tropical Depression 12E as of Thursday, October 20, 2011: 105 deaths &  1 million people are affected in Central America. Statistics for El Salvador: 34 Dead, 24 injured, and 2 missing 150,000 people affected by the storm more than 52,000 evacuated 18,445 houses are flooded over 60% of the crop is lost [...]

This post is an update on the events taking place during a long rainstorm (which is still going on)  that has caused major flooding, destruction, and deaths in El Salvador. Two days ago in the morning I read the number of Salvadorans in shelters was a little over 2,000.   Twelve hours later that number had [...]

We’re nearing the end of rainy season, which usually finishes around the end of October.  Instead of winding down slowly, rainy season actually picks up, often turning into a furious finale, leaving people in knee-deep waters on its way out.  The rains that have been falling almost nightly for the past 5+ months have saturated [...]