Survivors recount their losses after the 2019 flood that followed Cyclone Idai and inspire with stories of new beginnings, one year later.
Survivors recount their losses after the 2019 flood that followed Cyclone Idai and inspire with stories of new beginnings, one year laterCyclone Idai tore through central Mozambique in March 2019. Thousands of lives were lost during the cyclone and subsequent flooding. Rural villages, abundant with life, were washed away in an instant. With little information regarding these unmapped villages available, their suffering and grief, let alone existence, remain unknown to most of the outside world.
She survived the civil war, which took place between 1977 and 1992, and had raised her only child while facing severe drought conditions. Like many other villagers, she gathered her family and climbed a tree but watched helplessly as members of her family fell one by one into the floodwater below. Six of her family members died on March 16 2019, two of them her daughter and son. She watched them float away.
“To be surrounded completely by water, while not being able to drink or eat anything for three days. You cannot imagine the sad situation we experienced,” he says.
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