CycloneIdai: Farmer turns his house into relief center in Mozambique
Aid groups in matching shirts are seen in the courtyard as they prepare for the day at a Farmhouse in Matarara about 280 kilometres west of Beira, Mozambique. Picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP/African News Agency Women carry food supplies they received at a farmhouse in Matarara about 280 kilometres west of Beira, Mozambique. Picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP/African News Agency Aid groups prepare for the day at a Farmhouse in Matarara about 280 kilometres west of Beira, Mozambique.
"Prepare to be utterly disappointed," one recent night's impromptu cook for the crowd of volunteers declared. Word got out among fellow large-scale commercial farmers. Friends from the nearby city of Chimoio brought the first supplies. Then others came from Mozambique's capital, Maputo, 1 100 kilometres to the south. People started driving up from South Africa, even farther away.
The emergency assistance worked well enough that people on the other side of the river are living on their own destroyed plots, not in camps, a key factor in avoiding the spread of disease, he said. Scores of thousands of people displaced by the cyclone across central Mozambique are now huddling in shelters, often with poor water and sanitation, and a deadly cholera outbreak has been declared.
"It's an amazing operation you've put together," a member of a visiting international medical team told the group.
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