Honduras: families invading high risk areas El Progreso Yoro

About 100 families settled in the southern end of the river Hair, in 1998 the site was devastated by Hurricane Mitch, destroying 200 homes.
Las familias ya comienzan a construir viviendas de madera y material a las orillas del río Pelo.
High-risk areas in Progress, Traces of Hurricane Mitch still not cleared after almost 14 years, but dozens of families have been given the task of invading the banks of the rivers and streams of El Progreso. Read Article

The concern of those charged Codem (Municipal Emergency Committee) began in mid-May when about 100 families settled on the banks of Hair, a site that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, destroying 200 homes and dragging several neighbors who disappeared in the turbulent waters.

“We’re doing an inventory of all the people who have settled in the area to live, that is not going to allow that is set back 14 years, when Mitch destroyed everything in its path and do not want another phenomenon that do the same magnitude in the near future, “said Marvin Perdomo, Codem coordinator.
Concern

The problem of invasions at vulnerable sites not only occurs in the river Hair. The same is true on the banks of streams Swallows, Corocol, Cologne April Seven, all in the village, just as in many rural communities.

“In these sectors have built up two-story houses, with a small soil scour these will collapse, these barriers also fall behind the pace of machinery when you want to channel a channel and if demolished, the owners demanded that the municipality will pay.

Processing will present a report to the Municipal Corporation to be these authorities which decide the actions that need to be run to clear the site and prevent dozens of lives are put at risk in winter. ”

He said it would be more correct to evict the families, but that is up to the mayor and aldermen.

Several have been located in these areas of high vulnerability have said that if the district has to take relocate, this is not so, because they came on their own and in the same way they have to leave, said Perdomo.

Maria Angela Guerrero said he settled with his family on the banks of river hair, because they have nowhere to live and no longer has money to pay rent.

“All of us here are aware of the danger we run in winter, but we have no other to resolve to whatever comes and if the mayor will have to relocate evicted us in a safe place,” he said.

In recent months, staff Codem and Municipal Police, led by its director José Ortega, have operational running across the municipality to prevent citizens sow, build houses and have won on the boards, that has protected those structures.

Traces of Hurricane Mitch still not cleared after almost 14 years, but dozens of families have been given the task of invading the banks of the rivers and streams of El Progreso.
The concern of those charged Codem (Municipal Emergency Committee) began in mid-May when about 100 families settled on the banks of Hair, a site that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, destroying 200 homes and dragging several neighbors who disappeared in the turbulent waters.
“We’re doing an inventory of all the people who have settled in the area to live, that is not going to allow that is set back 14 years, when Mitch destroyed everything in its path and do not want another phenomenon that do the same magnitude in the near future, “said Marvin Perdomo, Codem coordinator.

Concern
The problem of invasions at vulnerable sites not only occurs in the river Hair. The same is true on the banks of streams Swallows, Corocol, Cologne April Seven, all in the village, just as in many rural communities.
“In these sectors have built up two-story houses, with a small soil scour these will collapse, these barriers also fall behind the pace of machinery when you want to channel a channel and if demolished, the owners demanded that the municipality will pay.
Processing will present a report to the Municipal Corporation to be these authorities which decide the actions that need to be run to clear the site and prevent dozens of lives are put at risk in winter. ”
He said it would be more correct to evict the families, but that is up to the mayor and aldermen.
Several have been located in these areas of high vulnerability have said that if the district has to take relocate, this is not so, because they came on their own and in the same way they have to leave, said Perdomo.
Maria Angela Guerrero said he settled with his family on the banks of river hair, because they have nowhere to live and no longer has money to pay rent.
“All of us here are aware of the danger we run in winter, but we have no other to resolve to whatever comes and if the mayor will have to relocate evicted us in a safe place,” he said.
In recent months, staff Codem and Municipal Police, led by its director José Ortega, have operational running across the municipality to prevent citizens sow, build houses and have won on the boards, that has protected those structures.
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