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Guyana Flood Information: Home
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Flooding started on the coastal areas of Guyana, South America on January 15th, 2005 and residents continue to face major problems. Over 1/3 of Guyana's population of ~700,000 have been affected by these floods that have claimed 34 lives so far (21 due to leptospirosis). Residents have lost personal belongings, livestock, and crops and warnings remain on disease outbreaks like gastro and dengue.
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Latest News
January 30th, 2006: Floodwaters in Mahaica will not decrease
for another 4-6 weeks. Click here
for more information on th 2006 floods and commentary by Tony Veira.
January 18th, 2006: Conservancy approaches 59 GD and Maduni sluices
set to open to relieve pressure. Rains continue in Guyana. Please click
here for more technical information.
January 12th, 2006: One year after the devastating January
2005 floods, Guyanese once again are under water. Residents in the Mahaica/Abary
region are under water and residents in the Pomeroon are flooded out.
The Alicea Foundation
is looking for families in need of assistance in those areas. Please read
more on Stabroek
News. Please use our forum
board to post on the January 2006 floods as we once again assist with
relief efforts.
Guyana
pictures from May 2005. Some canals may have been cleaned, but
plastic garbage collects quickly in a city and on a coast that more and
more resembles a grbage dump. Click
here for more pictures.
Jouvay.com raised $3000US for The Alicea Foundation's flood relief efforts. The organization continues to assist those affected by the floods, mothers with babies and persons with disabilities in particular. On June 1st, 2005 ther website www.aliceafoundation.org launched. Check it out.
University of Guyana establishes Flood Relief Fund. Over 252 Million Guyana dollars needed to assist in replacing of furniture, computers, books and to affect repairs. See their website.
Media
team visits Guyana for three days and reports on visit.
Click here for more information.
Learn
"About Guyana": Find out about
the Conservancy Dam and Ogle Sluice.
During the 2005 floods Jouvay Ventures L.L.C. donated funds raised through this site to the Alicea Foundation Inc. (A Not For Profit Company registered 11th November, 1997. Companies Act of Guyana 4279 filed by Cameron & Shepherd Attorneys-at-Law 2 Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown).
While we donated the monies raised here to the Alicea Foundation, we also want to publicise the fact that there are many other groups doing relief effort in Guyana and fundraising abroad. We post their information here, including information on how to donate to any of them, so that you can make an informed decision to try to get the monies and goods to Guyana. This activity was started during the 2005 floods and we are not sure what these organizations are doing for 2006.
Inasite Multimedia lends support by redesigning the jouvay.com/guyana website.
