Humana Spain, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has supported more than 590 families who were victims of the floods in Maputo province, southern Mozambique, with €200,000.
Speaking to Lusa, Arnaldo Banze, the communications director of the NGO’s humanitarian action project, explained that the support consists of food, hygiene kits, and clothes.
“The support is allocated to the neighbourhoods of Bunhiça, Fomento, Nkobe, Nwamatibjana, Sikwama and Tsalala, in the municipality of Matola,” he said.
According to the source, as part of the project, blocks of health units were rehabilitated and school materials were distributed to some schools affected by the floods.
“School materials were distributed to 3,250 pupils and teaching materials to 100 teachers from 11 schools in the municipality,” he concluded.
Mozambique is in the middle of the rainy season, which runs from October to April. During this period, cyclones Chido and Dikeledi have already hit the north of the country.
According to the latest official report from the Mozambican authorities, severe tropical cyclone Dikeledi hit Mozambique on 13 January, killing at least 11 people and affecting another 250,000.
Cyclone Chido, which hit Mozambique on 14 December, caused the deaths of at least 120 people and affected 450,000 others.
Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season.
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