Plan aids thousands in Zimbabwe
Residents on the banks of the flooded Zambezi river
PHOTO: Reuters/Grant Lee Neuenburg (courtesy www.alertnet.org)
January 28, 2008
Thousands of Zimbabwean children forced from their homes by the country’s worst floods for more than a century have been thrown a US$135,000 lifeline by Plan.
Plan staff, working in partnership with the World Food Programme, are distributing emergency aid to 8,300 displaced people.
Aid includes food, blankets, clothing and cooking items and Plan is working to improve access to clean water and promote hygiene in areas worst affected by the floods.
Education kits
The aid has been paid for by donations to Plan’s appeal launched in response to the floods and money from Plan’s emergency fund.
Houses and crops destroyed
In the Chipinge area, which has been hardest hit by the flooding, Plan staff report that many families have been displaced and houses and crops have been destroyed. Dozens of latrines have collapsed and boreholes and wells providing drinking water have been contaminated.
Several schools have reported damage, including 14 classrooms and a school garden in Chisuma that were destroyed and Nyamukwakwa primary school which has lost books and equipment.
Record rainfall
The current rains are the worst to fall in the southern African country in the last 127 years, according to Zimbabwe’s national meteorological service. Floods have caused further misery for people already facing rampant inflation and severe economic hardship.
Zimbabwe is one of four southern African countries to be hit by floods during the current rainy season. The others are Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia.
Your donation to Plan’s Disaster Fund will help provide urgently-needed emergency assistance to families affected by disasters and crisis, such as the flooding in Southern Africa.
Learn more about Plan's work in Zimbabwe.
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Plan staff, working in partnership with the World Food Programme, are distributing emergency aid to 8,300 displaced people.
Aid includes food, blankets, clothing and cooking items and Plan is working to improve access to clean water and promote hygiene in areas worst affected by the floods.
Education kits
The aid has been paid for by donations to Plan’s appeal launched in response to the floods and money from Plan’s emergency fund.
Houses and crops destroyed
In the Chipinge area, which has been hardest hit by the flooding, Plan staff report that many families have been displaced and houses and crops have been destroyed. Dozens of latrines have collapsed and boreholes and wells providing drinking water have been contaminated.
Record rainfall
The current rains are the worst to fall in the southern African country in the last 127 years, according to Zimbabwe’s national meteorological service. Floods have caused further misery for people already facing rampant inflation and severe economic hardship.
Zimbabwe is one of four southern African countries to be hit by floods during the current rainy season. The others are Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia.
Your donation to Plan’s Disaster Fund will help provide urgently-needed emergency assistance to families affected by disasters and crisis, such as the flooding in Southern Africa.
Learn more about Plan's work in Zimbabwe.
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