The Chortí culture is an indigenous group that inhabits the territory of what today belongs to Honduras and Guatemala. They are considered descendants of the Maya, more closely related to the Maya of Yucatan, Belize and northern Guatemala. And relatives of the Choles who inhabit Chiapas, Mexico.
The Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) is continuously on call in North Rhine-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz to help deal with the damage caused by the extreme flooding. Currently, some 1,000 ASB emergency workers are providing assistance in the municipalities affected by the floods.
In Honduras and the rest of the Central American region, extreme hydrometeorological phenomena such as droughts or floods caused by storms, tropical depressions or hurricanes are increasingly recurrent.
The project contributes to compliance with the Sendai Framework, as well as to the implementation of the IASC Guidelines on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action.
The ASB office in Hildesheim/Hameln-Pyrmont, the Helios Clinic Hildesheim and the DLRG Bezirk Hildesheim made it possible for around 1100 people over the age of 70 from the Hildesheim district to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination at the Drive In Vaccination in the parking lot of the Helios Clinic over the weekend (April 24/25, 2021).
Jackner's smile is now permanent, he is always happy with a playful and mischievous smile like all children, he is no longer looking at the other children from the hallway of the house, now he goes out and joins in, plays and talks with the other children his age, he introduces them to his car (so he calls the walker) and always wears a whistle around his neck that he blows to call the other children to play when it is 3:00 pm.
Hurricanes Eta and Iota are gone and we, the people with disabilities who work at sea, must continue to move forward without stopping.
ASB, as a founding member of the "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" alliance, will celebrate 20 years of coordinated humanitarian aid this year.
ASB allocated a one-month food package to benefit 90 families of people with disabilities in Puerto Cabezas after hurricanes Eta and Iota.
In the first week of February, ASB Foreign Aid's Regional Office for Latin America held a 5-day virtual exchange of experiences on the topic of "Social Services for Persons with Disabilities".
Fundada en 1888, el Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) es una organización sin fines de lucro, no gubernamental, apolítica y aconfesional. Es una de las principales organizaciones de protección civil y beneficiencia de Alemania. En América Latina, ASB cuenta con una oficina regional ubicada en Managua, Nicaragua, desde la que se apoyan proyectos de desarrollo y ayuda humanitaria en la región.
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