Emergency Relief to Reconstruction - Examples from the Response to Hurricanes Georges and Mitch

When the United States Congress provided funding for relief to Central America and the Caribbean following Hurricanes Georges and Mitch, CHF International received $33 million through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other funding agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF).
This represented 5.3% of the total $621 million provided by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Central American and the Caribbean Emergency Disaster Recovery.
Combined with an additional $15 million leveraged in cash and in-kind contributions,CHF International’s reconstruction efforts for Hurricanes Mitch and Georges were valued at more than $48 million. Because of the large scale of this effort, tangible improvements made by our work can be seen throughout Central America. But the intangible results are equally important. Both are synthesized here.