The Red Cross and Red Crescent is speeding up efforts to prevent disease in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, with the arrival today of an Emergency Response Unit providing sanitation for 20,000 people every day. Two emergency field hospitals will follow.
The Secretary General of the IFRC, Elhadj As Sy: “The scale and scope of suffering and damage is breath taking. Hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted. We must respond fast and at scale..."
The Secretary General of the IFRC, Elhadj As Sy: “The scale and scope of suffering and damage is breath taking. Hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted. We must respond fast and at scale..."
Survivors of Cyclone Idai arrive by rescue boat to an evacuation centre in Beira. Volunteers from the Mozambique Red Cross are providing first aid, medical triage, emergency supplies like blankets and helping with the registration of evacuees.
Survivors of Cyclone Idai arrive by rescue boat to an evacuation centre in Beira. Volunteers from the Mozambique Red Cross are providing first aid, medical triage, emergency supplies like blankets and helping with the registration of evacuees.
With reports that at least 400,000 people have been made homeless in central Mozambique, the world’s largest humanitarian network is warning that the full extent of the “humanitarian catastrophe” caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai may take days to become clear.
The Indonesian Red Cross is providing emergency assistance and helping clean up after a series of tsunami waves struck Sunda Strait, which connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean at the tip of Sumatra and Java.