(12 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
San Salvador - 11 November
1. Various of USAID arriving in El Salvador, for victims of floods
2. Various of aid being placed inside warehouse
3. Wide of international aid stacked inside warehouse
Verapaz, San Vicente - 11 November
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dorte Ellehammer, World Food Programme (WFP) Representative in El Salvador:
"The estimates we have so far indicate that up to 15-thousand families can be affected over the next year. This is very serious. We are working with the ministries to see what the exact numbers are for the losses, but for now we are talking about 15-thousand families affected for at least one year."
San Salvador - 11 November
5. Medium of Taiwan ambassador to El Salvador, Carlos Liao, and El Salvador Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez signing aid package from Taiwan to El Salvador
6. Various of aid given by Taiwan to the victims of floods in El Salvador
Verapaz, San Vicente - 8 November
7. Various of flooding
8. Various of flood damage
Verapaz, San Vicente - 11 November
9. Zoom into bag of picked corn in field
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramiro Gonzales, Farmer:
"I was very excited (before the storm) and I said to myself I'm going to harvest beans for eating. But, what can we do? This was God's doing. I am not the only one who has lost, everyone around here has lost."
11. Gonzales showing dead plants
12. Close of dead bean pods
Verapaz, San Vicente - 11 November
13. SOUNDBITE(Spanish) Manuel Sevilla, El Salvador's Minister of Agriculture:
"Those five states produce the equivalent of 55-thousand blocks of bean crops, which represents nearly 40 percent of the crops in the whole country."
14. Various of shelter where victims of flooding are staying
STORYLINE
At least 10-thousand Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after floods and mudslides destroyed huge swaths of crops during harvest season, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
WFP representative in El Salvador Dorte Ellehammer said on Wednesday that 15-thousand families could be affected over the next year.
On Tuesday, El Salvador President Mauricio Funes told reporters the death toll had risen to at least 160, but lowered the number of homeless to 12,930. Dozens of people remained missing.
Heavy rains caused a dozen rivers to jump their banks and sent torrents of mud and boulders tumbling down mountainsides across the Central American country over the weekend, burying entire neighbourhoods.
Rescue workers used heavy machinery to dig through the rubble on Tuesday, while survivors tried to unearth their belongings with any equipment they could get their hands on.
The WFP is helping feed 500 people in shelters in San Vicente, one of the worst-hit provinces, the United Nations agency said in a statement.
But it said thousands more would need help in the coming days.
The WFP said Wednesday that 90 tons of high-energy biscuits will be ready for distribution in two days, a supply that can feed 70-thousand people for four days.
The US Agency for International Development, meanwhile, on Wednesday delivered relief supplies to the Central American nation, along with 100-thousand for the purchase of additional needs.
Another 1-thousand tons of food is also available in the country.
In Verapaz, a farming town on the slopes of the Chichontepec volcano, many residents lost their sugar and coffee crops.
The Salvadoran government is still evaluating the extent of damage to beans, corn and other crops, but agriculture minister Manuel Sevilla said nearly 40 percent of the countries bean crops had been lost.
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