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Help save the street children of Cochabamba, Bolivia
Lindsay Melluish visited the work in Guatemala
and tells us of how her experience affected her. To read her account, click here. (PDF)
Stories from the Street
Download the Spring/Summer 2006 Toybox newsletter and read about the work of Toybox in Bolivia and Guatemala (PDF)
Julio helps hurricane victims
Read the Spring 2006 Toybox newsletter (PDF)
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Toybox calendar 2006
Rainy season begins again
The tropical storms and hurricanes that hit Central America towards the end of 2005 had a severe impact on household food security.
Some households in parts of Guatemala and Honduras have still not fully recovered
In some areas, the heavy rains damaged houses, topsoil and standing crops. Poor families who were displaced and lost food crops and/or income earning cash crops were hardest hit. Household staple food reserves in many cases are already exhausted, much earlier than normal. For these families, the normal "hunger season" (April to August) will be more severe and a greater threat to household food, nutrition and livelihoods security.
In Guatemala, an estimated 30,000 families affected by Hurricane Stan still require food assistance even as current emergency food aid operations wind down. Other households will cope by trying to increase the sale of labor, including increased labor migrations within and between countries.
The damages and losses from Hurricane Stan in Guatemala estimated at $983 million, which represents 3.4% of Guatemala's 2004 gross national product.
M People support Toybox
Pop group M People give a helping hand to Toybox on their last UK tour. Keyboard player and producer, Paul Heard is pictured here, next to his sister Hannah, who is the Toybox Information Coordinator just returned to the UK after two years living in Guatemala and working with the high risk team. Paul visited the Toybox Gifts stand before going on stage in the Hammersmith Apollo in London last week. Singer Heather Small encourages Toybox to "keep up the good work".
Toybox help make poverty history with street children
Toybox joined Make Poverty History. You can find out more at: www.makepovertyhistory.org