Bolivia - Floods
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Regional Team: LAC
Disaster Declared: 1/22/2007
Brief Description: Heavy rains caused major rivers to overflow in Bolivia, affecting communities in at least
seven out of the country's nine departments and leading to preventative evacuations in some areas of Santa Cruz and
Tarija departments. The flooding affected more than 10,000 families and caused landslides and road obstructions,
isolating some rural communities. On January 20, the Government of Bolivia declared an emergency and began
undertaking needs assessments in the affected areas.
On January 22, U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Philip S. Goldberg declared a disaster due to the effects of the flooding.
In response, OFDA provided $50,000 through USAID/Bolivia to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
for the transportation and distribution of emergency relief supplies to the most affected communities in the
department of Santa Cruz. OFDA's senior regional advisor, based in Costa Rica, and a Peru-based OFDA
consultant traveled to Bolivia to conduct damage assessments in coordination with USAID/Bolivia and the Government
of Bolivia. In addition, the U.S. Embassy in La Paz authorized aircraft based in-country with the anti-narcotics
program to survey the affected area and deliver relief materials from a warehouse in Bolivia funded by the U.S.
Southern Command's Humanitarian Assistance Program.
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