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El
Salvador To Build Shelter Houses For
Hurricane Victims
SAN SALVADOR - The government of El Salvador
on Thursday announced the construction of
1,500 temporary houses for the victims of
hurricane Ida that left more than 15,000
people homeless and about 200 deaths in the
country.
The shelter houses, each about 30 square
meters in area, will be ready in three
months, according to El Salvador Housing and
Urban Development Minister Edin Martinez.
The minister said the government would use
2.2 million of the country's emergency
budget of 150 million U.S. dollars to
finance the construction of these houses.
Interior Minister Humberto Centento said the
authorities are looking for proper places to
build the shelter houses.
Hurricane Ida and accompanying rains swept
El Salvador on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, leaving 78
people still unaccounted for.
The civil protection authorities of the
country said that there are 1,487 affected
houses, of which 288 are destroyed, 291
damaged and 908 located in high-risk zones.
Jessica Faieta, UN coordinator in El
Salvador, said that between 75,000 and
100,000 people have suffered from direct or
indirect impacts of the hurricane.
International aid agencies and the
governments of Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala,
Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and the
United States have offered humanitarian
assistance to El Salvador.
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