Due to the earthquake on Thursday night - 7,1 on the Richter Scale - at the north eastern coast of Honduras, various communities in the different OCDIH sectors have been affected. There have been serious damages in the sectors of Chinda and Ilama in Santa Barbara, Copan Ruinas and Lepaera in Lempira. The latest information shows that there is a loss of 120 houses due to collapsed walls. Other houses are now causing extreme danger to the families because the earthquake caused serious cracks in the walls. The affected families are living in great uncertainty. The majority is now staying at their neighbors or families. But these are just temporal solutions.

The Christian Organization for the Integrated Development of Honduras (OCDIH) organized on the 3th of April a regional forum on the food crisis with the participation of the farmers of Western Honduras, affiliated organizations, local governments and representatives of the media and journalists. Awareness raising amongst these various groups about the impact of the food crisis on the poor families, rural and urban, is the objective of a campaign that OCDIH is implementing in order to search for alternatives and solutions.  

En Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, a village of stilts and dreams, a ´Say NO to Garbage´ was the start of a new street theater play called the Six R´s: recycle, reduce, re-use, refuse, repair and responsibility. The idea is to educate the people on the importance of a good use and processing of garbage, that will not only reduce the amount of garbage in the environment, but also create alternatives and generate income.

Worldwide, we are facing an energetic crisis and severe consequences of the climate change. Therefore, the Christian Organization for the Integrated Development of Honduras (OCDIH) in cooperation with other organizations like Heifer Project International (HPI), are looking for solutions and energetic alternatives. In OCDIH´s sector Protección and Naranjito, Santa Barbará, the Association of Producers is implementing bio-digesters for the production of natural gas.