2007 Archives
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TBM mobilizes disaster relief team to meet needs in southern Mexico
Updated: 11/08/07
TBM mobilizes disaster relief team
to meet needs in southern MexicoBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Baptists have responded to urgent needs in southern Mexico after hundreds of thousands of people were driven from their homes in that region’s worst-ever flooding. Texas Baptist Men mobilized a disaster relief team to serve in the state of Tabasco, and both the Baptist World Alliance and the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board sent funds to Baptists in the region.
When more than a week of heavy rains caused the Grijalva River to burst its banks, floods displaced up to 800,000 people in Tabasco. Later, at least 16 people were missing and presumed dead when a mudslide buried the San Juan de Grijalva community in the state of Chiapas.
Federal police assist a group of flood-affected residents as they prepare to board a helicopter on the outskirts of Villahermosa, the state capital of Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico. Thousands of homes were flooded after rivers burst their banks in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco and heavy rains left 70 percent of the swampy region under water. (Photo/Tomas Bravo/REUTERS) 11/15/2007 - By John Rutledge
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