On 14 March, a deadly cyclone struck the coast of Mozambique and has now hit multiple countries across southern Africa, causing catastrophic damage in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Cyclone Idai and its associated floods have already claimed 150 lives, with many more missing, injured and homeless. Families are in urgent need of shelter, food, clean water and medical supplies. Entire villages have been wiped out. Details are still emerging, but with the volatile weather expected to continue, the damage may not be over yet.
“Our home has been destroyed by the cyclone. We lost everything. Nothing is left,” says Julia, a 37-year-old mother of three who fled with her children from their village in Mozambique. “We don’t have food, clothes, or blankets for the night.”
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CARE was the first agency to respond in the hardest hit region of Mozambique, providing more than 24,350 people with tents, seeds and livestock, water purification tablets, menstrual hygiene items, jerry cans and soap, emergency latrines and hygiene education to prevent water contamination and water-borne diseases.