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200,000 Salvadoran Earthquake Victims Receive Humanitarian Relief
Up to 200,000 victims from January 13's earthquake have received humanitarian relief from the World Food Program (WFP), including tons of supplies worth US$465,000, a spokesman from WFP said on Saturday.
Alejandro Lopez Chicheri, spokesman for the WFP Salvadoran program, said food supplies have been distributed to remote communities, including Comasagua and Talnique in the central state of La Libertad.
Lopez Chicheri announced the program will also soon begin an emergency operation to guarantee that over the next six months, 180,000 people will be fed via a food for work scheme.
A similar program was run in El Salvador in 1998, after Hurricane Mitch hit the Central American country, leaving behind 80,000 victims.
According to reports from San Salvador, the government said there were 403,000 earthquake victims across the country.
Also, Salvadoran authorities report the earthquake has left over 700 dead, 3,000 injured and 93,000 houses damaged.
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