The parents were just happy to hear the first cries of her new born child. Then, the cyclone, the storm came flooding in. In The Event Of Power Failure. Many newborns are dead, many of the children washed away, a lot of are now orphans. Mozambique, once a Portuguese colony, and a cherished second home to many German, is drawn from the cyclone Idai. The city of Beira is destroyed to 90 percent. “Our colleagues and friends tell us about apocalyptic circumstances,” says Dieter Wenderlein, he is a Sant in the Christian community’egidio is responsible for the A-world projects.

Last summer, he has presented to the Federal Minister for economic cooperation and development, Gerd Müller, the Dream-aid projects for HIV-infected and Aids-diseased women in Beira. Also, the daily mirror was there care to research trip, four years ago, at the invitation of the German Aids-Foundation of Sant’egidio, in the case of the successful and also the government inspierienden projects for Aids prevention, to health and Education, food security and nutrition for children.

There is a lack of drinking water and medications

Many of the people served have lost everything now. “The Slum, the huts of the poor people, are all flooded, often to the ground,” says the Würzburg-born pharmacist Wenderlein. In the nutrition centre of Beira, in the health station, are swept away the roofs over the labs for a blood test in the first floor. Bottom: Mud, Garbage, Chaos. Nevertheless, AIDS get Pregnant, to get their medicines to enable them in regular use, to bring HIV-negative children to the world. Wenderlein: “After the cyclone, we had only contact to one of our employees, Nelson Moda, he reported, as he ran over the bodies to the Dream center. Only since yesterday, we have about Facebook contact, get terrible images, the situation is completely messy and unmanageable.“

Many of the Survivors from the poor district of the pagoda protection, to be supplied with food. “But there is a lack of clean drinking water and medicines.” If deliveries of aid accessible by helicopter the dogs ttausenden people in from the outside world, sometimes completely cut off the disaster area, plunge the inhabitants in the few Existing, as well as Tobias Müller of Sant’Egidio in Berlin reports.

The daily mirror visited the “Dream”-nutrition center for children in Beira, 2015. It is now severely damaged, a lot of kids…photo: Annette Kögel

helper to tell the news Agency dpa that now severe epidemics could break out, diarrhoeal diseases such as Cholera and typhoid. At the port of Beira, everything is flooded with more miles. Now the US wants to help-military. Organisations like the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, with the help of the daily mirror cooperates with its foreign aid, and Doctors without borders announced more aid missions.

Malawi is severely affected, experts compare the humanitarian emergency as a result of the cyclone with the disastrous situation in Syria and Yemen. According to UN estimates, around three million people are affected. Alone, in Mozambique, some 400,000 people, including many children and young people will be temporarily homeless. Donations will be asked for this urgently (see below).

at Least 700 Dead

The U.S. forces that deployed at the request of the American development Agency USAID, and in consultation with Mozambique, the aid, informed the US high command for Africa (Africom) on the night of Monday. While the exact needs would be rated to bring the military already use the medium, probably at first, ships and helicopters – in position, it said. So far, the Indian military with three ships, as well as the South African armed forces with helicopters have been involved in addition to local forces.

On the 15. March had been devastated by the severe tropical storm, large parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and with heavy rain, vast land cases, especially in Mozambique strokes under water. Around 700 people have died, according to government figures – the actual number is likely to be, according to the helpers, however, are significantly higher. They were also concerned about the Thousands of children who have lost their parents or were separated from their families. “We must now act very quickly in order for these children to fall into the hands of traffickers or victims of sexual violence or early marriage,” said Claire Rogers, the CEO of World Vision Australia, in Beira.

Please donate

The Alliance development helps to geghört the German world hunger help, please after the storm, Idai urgent assistance to million people in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe : the Alliance development helps account for donations: IBAN: DE29 100 20 5000 100 20 5000, keyword: “cyclone Idai” in the Bank for the social economy.

community of Sant’egidio, e. V. : keyword: “Mozambique, Malawi”, League Bank, IBAN: DE71 7509 0300 0003 0299 99

BIC: GENODEF 1 M05.

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flood disaster in South-East Africa, After cyclone “Idai” is increasing the number of the dead is always more

The German Aids-Foundation also has an account and asks for donations: keyword: “relief Beira (Mozambique)”, Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung, Sparkasse Köln Bonn, IBAN: DE85 3705 0198 0008 0040 04, BIC: COLSDE33.