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Manatì (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 8 April, 150 families in the town of Manati will be given shelters constructed by their community, donated by some international foundations through the management of the Secretariat of Social Pastoral Care for the Archdiocese of Barranquilla. Manati was badly hit earlier this year by torrential rains and subsequent floods that destroyed homes, causing severe damage throughout the small town in southern Colombia. In November 2010 (see Fides 7/12/2010) the rivers overflowed, flooding the town completely in different areas.
According to the note sent by the Episcopal Conference of Colombia to Fides, the walls of the rooms are light sheet, the roof is waterproof. They have electricity and drinking water. The inaugural celebration will be presided at by Archbishop Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve of Barranquilla, the Governor of the Atlantic, Eduardo Verano De La Rosa, the Mayor of Manati, Silvia Elena Perez, and representatives from the German Embassy, the Bureau of European Commission Humanitarian Aid, and the National Secretariat for Pastoral Social Care/Caritas Colombia. (CE) (Agenzia Fides, 08/04/2011)
