Mozambique: Tzu Chi Foundation delivers more than 840 houses to cyclone victims

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Mozambique: Tzu Chi Foundation delivers more than 840 houses to cyclone victims

6:01 CAT | 27 Aug 2025

FILE - Houses built by Tzu Foundation in Kura, Nhamatanda district, Sofala province. File photo: Tzu Chi Foundation Mozambique]

The Buddhist foundation Tzu Chi will hand over 840 houses to families affected in 2019 by Cyclone Idai in Sofala, infrastructures budgeted at around US $33 million, the institution announced.

The 840 houses to be handed over on 3 September were built in the district of Búzi, in Sofala province, central Mozambique, and are part of a package of 2,067 houses being built in the Guara-Guara resettlement centre, in the same district, to support the victims of Cyclone Idai, which hit that province in 2019.

“These houses symbolise another step towards the goal we set when we decided to create the foundation in Mozambique: to support communities, especially the most vulnerable,” said the president of the Tzu Chi Mozambique Charity Foundation, Dino Foi, quoted in the institution’s statement.

So far, 1,611 houses have already been delivered by this foundation in Sofala, which plans to make more than 3,000 houses available in that province by 2026 for people affected by Cyclone Idai, according to the same statement.

The foundation’s reconstruction support package in Sofala is budgeted at $108 million, entirely provided by the organisation, which has been in Mozambique since 2012, supporting the authorities in times of emergency.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.

The 2018/2019 rainy season was one of the most severe on record in Mozambique: 714 people died, including 648 victims of cyclones Idai and Kenneth, two of the biggest ever to hit the country.

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