Salvadoran Quake Victims Organize to Seek More Aid
Salvadorans left homeless by an Oct. 10 earthquake that struck the capital formed a committee Sunday to appeal for more aid.
Community representatives told reporters they had received little of the aid sent to El Salvador.
“The people see it on television, in the newspapers, hear about it on the radio, but we haven’t got any ourselves,” said Manuel Romero Elias, who spoke for 256 families in the Colonia Veracruz district.
Most of the 200,000 people who lost their homes in the earthquake are still living in camps of makeshift shelters and tents. The tremor killed 1,500.
The committee, which represents 50 communities, called for the repair and construction of homes, schools and health centers, clearing of rubble from the streets, and the reinstallation of telephones, electricity and drinking water.
It also asked the government to buy plots of land for the homeless and to set up mobile clinics.
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