Caritas Niger
has appealed for US$900,000 (600,000 euro) to provide help to households affected by flooding. It is the third Caritas organisation in West Africa to make an emergency appeal following Senegal and
Burkina Faso.
“In Niger, the rains usually mean a good harvest and are a cause for joy, but the rain and floods that came this month have just caused
chaos,†said Abdou Galadimi Souleymane from Caritas Niger.
People will be provided with shelter, blankets, mosquito
nets and cooking utensils. A hygiene kit containing items such as soap and bleach will help protect people from the outbreak of disease.
Heavy rain at the beginning of September
caused a dam to burst outside Agadez.
Such losses have been a further blow to the fragile food supply in Niger, where frequent droughts put many people at risk of hunger. The wells
that people rely on for their water have also been affected by the floods.
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
Rob Riley pulls his boat onto a flooded road to get back to his subdivision, which was cut off due to flooding from heavy rains, in Lawrenceville, Georgia September 22, 2009. ...
