Working in partnership with Save the Children and local government and church officials, The Salvation Army will provide long-term recovery in the area of Prespire, Honduras, about two and a half hours south of the capital city of Tegucigalpa. The Salvation Army World Service Office (SAWSO) is coordinating a series of relief teams with members experienced in logistics, construction, public health and water sanitation to help the area recover from the hurricane's devastation.

Salvation Army relief teams are helping rural communities reopen wells to obtain safe drinking water. Major Roland Sewell, The Salvation Army's International Coordinator of Emergency Services, will visit Nicaragua and Honduras to lend his water engineering expertise in advising communities on how to ensure healthy water sources for residents. Major Sewell is one of many experienced Salvation Army staff and volunteers who are devoting their time and professional skills to the ongoing relief and recovery operation. Relief teams already are scheduled through the next six months.

Because of the need to reclaim the land and minimize health risk Salvation Army teams have been asked to bury the dead in Nicaragua. Salvation Army personnel also are counseling survivors to help them regain hope in this seemingly hopeless situation.