How the Global Fund is Responding to Hurricane Stan

The Global Fund for Women extends our deepest sympathy and solidarity to peoples throughout Central America who have lost family members, homes and livelihoods to Hurricane Stan. We are accepting proposals from women's organization throughout the region who are mobilizing to provide short- and long-term relief.

The Global Fund has awarded $15,000 to the New Horizons Home Association in Guatemala to provide food, shelter and health services to over 125 families. The Association is also working with local women to seed economic empowerment projects to provide for communities in the long run.

In partnership with the Global Fund for Women, the Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) of Costa Rica, which produces daily radio shows in Spanish and English, has launched the "Woman to Woman, with Affected Communities" campaign. Through this campaign, a Latin American coalition led by FIRE is building the capacity of women's organizations to take leadership and be recognized for their role in preparing for disasters and cleaning up in their wake.

Eye Witness Report

Global Fund advisor María Suárez, co-director of the Feminist International Radio Endeavor, Costa Rica, shares her experience supporting women's groups in Guatemala in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan:

"These women are clinging to every scrap of hope that they find among the ruins. They are the ones who pick up the broken threads and re-weave the social and ecological fabric rent by the storm that brought five straight days of driving rain, which exposed, once again, the country's yawning political vacuum."

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To Apply for a Grant:

Read our letter to grantees in Central America.

Lea nuestra carta a las contrapartes en Centroamerica.

Support Long-term Rebuilding:

Click here if you wish to support the longterm rebuilding of women's rights organizations in Central America. When you make an on-line donation, please mark Central America Floods in the section entitled "Would you like to make this contribution in honor of someone special?" On your donation form or check, please indicate Central American Floods.

Emergency Relief Donations:

The Global Fund is not set up to provide broad disaster relief. If you wish to donate directly to an immediate relief organization, contact any of the groups listed below, or check your local or national newspaper:

Organizations providing relief to Central America:

  1. American Jewish World Service
    1-800-889-7146
    www.ajws.org
  2. Mercy Corps
    1-(888) 256-1900
    www.mercycorps.org

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