Human Interest

Comparing Honduras With Haiti

March 7, 2010 by Catracha Hondurena No Comments

Recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile highlight the vulnerabilities of urban developments. Humanity is increasingly concentrated in environmentally fragile cities, like Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and Concepcion, Chile’s second city. One result is that more and more people—especially the urban poor—are left homeless after disaster strikes.

In the Amarateca Valley in central Honduras, relief organizations have built seven villages “from scratch” after Hurricane Mitch swept through Central America in October 1998. Ryan Alaniz, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota, has been living and researching in the Amarateca Valley. From his home there, he spoke to NAM’s Marcelo Ballve about this experiment in community building.
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