AECID activates an emergency agreement to support Hondurans by COVID-19
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) announced this Friday the activation of a new emergency aid agreement with the NGO Cáritas Spain to respond to the humanitarian needs of people in the Honduran Dry Corridor during the coronavirus pandemic.
The families of the Honduran dry corridor, a strip that covers the center, south and west of the country, have "difficulties in accessing and availability of food due to the measures taken to stop contagions" from COVID-19, AECID said in Tegucigalpa.
More than three months after the first three confirmed cases of coronavirus, Honduras registers 426 deaths, while infections reach 15,366, despite the fact that the country has not yet reached the peak of cases, according to figures from the National Risk Management System (Sinager).
Given this situation, AECID will activate the emergency agreement in the coming days so that the different local Caritas can "deploy a humanitarian response to families" in the departments of Choluteca and Comayagua, in the south and center of Honduras, with the support of Spanish Cooperation.
The aid consists of delivering food, personal hygiene supplies and household disinfection to 2,200 people, 65% of them women, according to the information.
The delivery will be accompanied by the "adequate preparation of the technicians, community agents and volunteers who will support the families, as well as an information campaign on risks and prevention against COVID-19," he added.
With this intervention, there are already 14 activations of emergency agreements approved since March, by the AECID, to respond to emergency situations aggravated by the coronavirus.
AECID has mobilized 1.4 million euros and has several emergency agreements signed with NGOs specialized in humanitarian action and that allow it to be activated on an emergency basis to give an immediate response to the vulnerable population in case of need.
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (MAUC), is the main management body of the Spanish Cooperation that, oriented to the fight against poverty and the Sustainable human development has humanitarian action among its priorities.
The Department of Non-Governmental Organizations for the Development of AECID coordinates the management of these funds, which, like other projects and agreements, are mainly nourished by the quota of the Personal Income Tax, the attention box for other purposes of social interest.
For its part, the AECID Humanitarian Action Office, created in 2007, is responsible for the management and execution of Spain's official humanitarian action, based on the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence.
