2016
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Named person(s)
Digna Palma, Jose Tumbaco
Date photo taken
28 April 2016
Country of origin
Ecuador
Region
Latin America and Carribbean
Photo credit
David Shenk
Description
Digna Palma, left, is a member at La Paz church in Manta, Manabi Province, Ecuador. She described how she hung onto this door frame during the earthquake while the walls of her house fell around her. Her house is uninhabitable and in rubble. Her family had also suffered two severe floods in the past 15 years. Jose Tumbaco, right, is pastor of La Paz church.
The earthquakes on April 16th and 20th killed 660 people and injured more than 4,500. Approximately 1,700 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Multiple Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Ecuatoriana (IEME) congregations are located in Manabi Province. With encouragement from Rosedale Mennonite Missions, the mission agency of the conference, MCC has sent a disaster response coordinator, David Shenk, to assist IEME in assessing the need and planning the response.