FROM THE FIELD
Yesterday (15 January) ActionAid worked with the government to rescue about 5,400 people who were cut off by the flood.
Alberto Silva, director of ActionAid Mozambique, said: “There are 250,000 people living
downstream of the dam. This is the second year they will lose everything.”
Since 4 January, ActionAid has issued local committees at Bawe, Charre, Mandua and Chirembwe with
emergency kits which include bicycles, megaphones, solar-powered radios, jerricans, lamps, flags and first-aid medicines. The kits were handed over at large meetings attended by up to 800
people.ActionAid has provided plastic sheets to shelter 152 families in the Goli-Goli and Jardim resettlement centres, and distributed food and other supplies given by the World Food Programme
and the Christian Council of Mozambique.
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
