Hurricane Eta brought devastating rains, mudslides to Honduras
Thousands of people across Honduras were in the direct path of Hurricane Eta and have lost everything.
Many more have been affected by its lasting impacts such as damaged roads, flooding, and fallen bridges.
They are without food, water, & shelter.
Our teams have been working with pastors, church members, first responders, and other volunteers to asses and respond to the damage left by Hurricane Eta a week and a half ago while preparing for a new storm, Iota, today.
As the Connect Global team traveled the countryside they have witnessed first hand the destruction that the storm itself made as well as the effects of flooding and mudslides left behind.
Now as we prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Iota, our team is preparing to serve even more of our friends and neighbors who will be impacted once again.
We have already donated mattresses, food, clothing, and many other vital services to people who are cut off from the main roads. A convoy of trucks left La Ceiba over the weekend and headed to Yoro. The trip lasting over 3.5 hours was over very washed out roads and through debris still left by the last storm.
Well over 200 people gathered in order to receive donated food, clothing, and other items as many people across Honduras have lost everything.
In a year already devastated by other storms, economic impact and travel shutdowns due to the pandemic, the effects are only beginning to be felt along the northern coast of Honduras where we work.
Our teams have been hard at work each day diligently providing care for those in our immediate reach. We began last week by distributing clothing that was donated to Connect Global by a shop owner for people who have lost their possessions in the flood waters.
We continue to provide daily staples such as rice, beans, and cooking oil, purified water, mattresses, and other much needed supplies.
A team of Connect Global staff and volunteers also joined the sweet girls and boys at the Little Lambs Refuge for a day of cooking and distributing 250 hot meals to our neighbors in La Masica as well as working with several church volunteers top hand out well over 300 hot meals over this past weekend.
The Connect Global team is only able to immediately assist and serve the community thanks to your generosity.
There is still much work to be done and our teams are out working every single day to help those who have been affected by the storms.
We invite you to Give With Us to make an immediate impact in the lives of those who have been hit the hardest.
Thank You!
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
Connect Global will continue to serve the people of Honduras.
Knowing that the community will continue to need support for food and the Gospel we have adopted a 3 part plan.
1) Family Food Bags: We will continue to provide these Family Food Bags to individual families (including pastors’ families) as needed to make sure that their needs are met.
2) Strategic Care Ministries: We will continue to focus efforts on Strategic Care Ministries that are in turn caring for larger groups of people. Delivering food in bulk to these locations helps provide care for dozens of people at a time.
3) Urban Gardening through Aquaponics: We have set the goal to build 50 urban gardens for families all over the north coast region of Honduras as well as 1 large Urban Farm to grow food in bulk and to provide a training model. Between March 15th & June 8th We built 5 of these family-sized Urban Farms. This component will provide long-term sustainability through helping others grow their own food and allowing Connect Global to grow large amounts of food to give away.
The Connect Global team led by Janeth Montoya, Jorge Amador, and many more staff and volunteers made their way up into the hardest hit areas to make sure that we could serve those in need.
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The Connect Global staff and volunteers delivering food near the flooded river banks in La Masica in the wake of Hurricane Eta
