Chinese community in Mozambique provides tons of products for flood victims

The Chinese community in Mozambique has donated several tons of supplies for flood victims in southern and central Mozambique, announced a source from the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD).

In total, the Chinese community donated 50 tons of cereals, 6,200 liters of cooking oil and other products (among food, clothing and blankets), indicated César Tembe, national director of INGD’s Prevention and Mitigation Division, quoted by Chinese news agency Xinhua.

“We have many people in need of support, I think this donation will help us meet the needs we have to support the affected populations,” Tembe said.

The products will benefit victims affected by flooding in the provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo in the south, and Sofala in the center.

In Mozambique, the occurrence of floods is recurrent at this time of year, but even so, rainfall has been above the expected: only in the week of February 6 to 12 it rained almost three times the average of the months of February, according to the National Institute of Meteorology (Inam).

The southern region of Mozambique, namely Maputo and its surroundings, have been hit by heavy rain and flooding this period, causing 11 deaths, causing damage to 43,500 people and leaving several public infrastructures damaged.

Between October and April, Mozambique is cyclically hit by floods, a phenomenon justified by its geographical location, subject to the passage of storms and, at the same time, downstream of most of the hydrographic basins of southern Africa.

With information from Lusa

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