Nutritious meals delivered to several villages in Mozambique

Beira, Mozambique – Before breakfast Lowveld Media reporter, Tereasa Dias, already travelled thousands of kilometres on the Mercy Air Kodiak to several rural villages and also a hospital in Buzi.

Dias accompanied pilot Paul Middleton for her second day documenting all the aid given to survivors of Cyclone Idai.

Tereasa Dias takes us through her second day in Mozambique with Mercy Air. She talks to Samaritan’s Purse an international relief organisation that are helping people in Buzi.

They have set up tents and have doctors and nurses helping the people”, says Dias. “They have a lot of snake bite cases and malaria. The worst I saw was one old lady who has cholera, continues Dias.

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Last night they flew from Beira to Mucombeze where they spent the night at the ASAM mission base just north of Chimoio.

At the ASAM mission base Dias interviewed Dwight Lagore, the Southern African field director and Lynn Lagore, from Strategic Action Mission (S.A.M Ministries), who told her more of their involvement in helping the people of Mozambique.

 

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This morning they flew to Espungabera to deliver nutritious meals and just after 10:00 they landed back in Beira.

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