WFP responds to post cyclone #Dineo needs in Mozambique

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WFP responds to post cyclone #Dineo needs in Mozambique

3:29 CAT | 21 Mar 2017

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it will work with the non-governmental organisation ADRA to provide assistance to fifty thousand people affected by Cyclone Dineo, which hit the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane on 16 February.

According to WFP, at least 550,691 people in the province were affected by the storm.

In response, WFP has reached an agreement under which ADRA will provide food assistance through unconditional transfers and food for work schemes to 50,000 people in Inhambane city and the districts of Maxixe, Massinga and Morrumbene.

Assistance is already being delivered using stocks borrowed from existing programmes to address the needs caused by drought. In its latest situation report, WFP states that it is hoping to receive donor funding to replenish the stocks.

The food for work schemes are to focus on opening and repairing drainage and irrigation systems, constructing greenhouses for fruit trees and vegetables, the opening of cassava and sweet potatoes seed multiplication fields, and rehabilitating access roads.

At least seven people died and 51 injured when the tropical cyclone hit land, with winds reaching 120 kilometres per hour. Health units, schools and water supply systems were destroyed, as were other buildings and crops.

Source: AIM