44 - Wednesday, November 23, 1988 - North Shore News

Campaign
helps

needy
Nicaraguans

THIS YEAR’S Tools for Peace
material aid campaign to help
Nicaragua rebuild has become
more urgent than ever in the wake
of Hurricane Joan. Winds
reaching 220 km an hour have left
a trail of death and destruction
along Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast.
The death toll is over 100. Three
hundred thousand people are
homeless, 65,000 of them children
less than five years old.

Almost all the houses in
Bluefields, a community of 39,000
on the coast, have been destroyed.
In Rama, Nueva Guinea and much
of eastern Nicaragua, 80 per cent
of the houses no longer exist.

Crops and warehouses of corn,
rice, coffee and bananas have been
heavily damaged, leaving
Nicaragua in desperate need of
food and forcign exchange.
Wharfs, fish boats and fish pro-
cessing plants on the Atlantic coast
have been totally destroyed.

Tools for Peace has been collec-
ting material aid for Nicaragua
since 1981, hefping it survive seven
years of overt, covert and
economic war waged against it by
the United States. Even before
Hurricane Joan, economic losses
from the U.S./contra war totalled
$3.6 billion. Over 3,000 civilians
have died, and 250,000 men,
women and children have been
driven from their homes.

Now, following the worst natu-
ral disaster in its history,
Nicaragua’s need is greater than
ever. Priority projects for this
year’s campaign already include
blankets, rubber boots and funds
for roofing. But the 300,000 peo-
ple left homeless by Hurricane
Joan can’t wait for our usual
shipment in the spring. Tools for
Peace has joined with Oxfam-
Canada, CUSO, Inter Pares, and
the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith
and Justice to raise funds for
emergency relief and reconstruc-
tion.

This coalition is sending a
three-person delegation to Central
America to assess the damage
first-hand and to determine the
victims’ specific needs.

Donations to help Nicaragua
rebuiid can be sent to Tools for
Peace at 1672 East 10th Avenue,
Vancouver V5N 1X5. Phone 879-
7216 to find out what else you can
do to help.

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