Brexit Aside .... Meanwhile In Mozambique, Zimbabwe And Malawi.....

[naomi24]

//Cyclone Idai has triggered a "massive disaster"......Christian Lindmeier from the UN's World Health Organization, said: "We need all the logistical support that we can get."//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47624156

No question. Just a thought.

[maggiebee]

The village in Malawi that my daughter worked in three years ago no longer exists. Heartbreaking.

[Mamyalynne]

Disasters like this are on a scale I struggle to imagine, truly awful.

[marval]

That is awful, my heart goes out to them all.

[anotheoldgit]

The UK once again steps into the breach

/// The Department for International Development have made £6 million of UK aid available to help meet the immediate needs of people who have lost everything. We have deployed a UK team of DFID experts who are now on the ground in Mozambique helping to co-ordinate the UK’s response to this disaster, and we hope to have vital UK aid supplies in the region shortly. We stand ready to scale up our support if needed. ///

/// DFID has already provided £764,000 to the World Food Programme to provide food and food vouchers. This is an allocation from DFID Mozambique’s annual budget for 2018/19.
DFID provided approximately £1.5 million from the 2018 Mozambique bilateral budget to preposition relief items in warehouses of the Mozambique National Institute for Disaster Management.
Since June 2018, DFID has provided £10.5 million to WFP and UNICEF to get food and nutritional support to vulnerable people in Malawi.
DFID is the largest donor to the Start Fund. In 2018, DFID committed an additional £37.5 million over three years. ///

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-provide-up-to-6-million-of-uk-aid-to-support-victims-of-deadly-east-africa-cyclone

[JF85]

At last, a story that gives me a reason to be proud of the UK. Thank you for that.

[naomi24]

aog, aid from all over the world flows into disaster areas.

[fender62]

Zimbabwe could confiscate mugabe's stolen millions...100 millions etc

[Ellipsis]

AOG, you generous soul, you can always donate more here:

https://www.dec.org.uk/

[spathiphyllum]

Absolutely tragic news i can't believe this thread was on Tuesday and i'm only just being made aware of the disaster.. Why have the media not covered this more?

[Old_Geezer]

It's been on the news.
Been a few disasters around the world of late.

[spathiphyllum]

Yep :/