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Assignment: Cutting the lifeline to Honduras

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26/08/2010

Cutting the lifeline to Honduras

BBC World Service - Assignment, Cutting the lifeline to Honduras

Times are tough for Honduran migrant workers who can no longer afford to send money home

Money sent home by Honduran migrant workers provides a lifeline for thousands of families. But jobs are drying up and the effects are being felt in Honduras.

Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest people. So the global economic crisis has had a dramatic effect on families in the developing world.  

In Honduras, remittances have long been the main source of foreign currency. But now that money is drying up. 

Assignment hears from Honduran migrant workers in the US who are struggling to find jobs - and from their impoverished families back home.

Producer: Vera Frankl
An IGA production for BBC World Service.

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