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Mozambique: Post-Cyclone Reconstruction Still Needed
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
30 April 2008
Posted to the web 30 April 2008
Mogovolas
Although Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, currently on a working visit to the northern province of Nampula, has praised reconstruction work undertaken after cyclone Jokwe hit the Nampula coast almost two months ago, a great deal more still heeds to be done to repair the damage.
The cyclone destroyed 69,000 hectares of crops and 279 fishing boats, of which only 15 have so far been repaired.
Reporting in the district of Mogovolas to Guebuza on what has been done to rebuild the lives of farmers affected by the cyclone, the provincial government admitted that, of the 13 agricultural fairs planned to provide seeds and other inputs, only one has taken place so far, catering for 1,300 families.
Nampula is the most important cashew producing province in the country, but the cyclone uprooted an estimated 1.5 million cashew trees. The provincial authorities intend to distribute 700,000 cashew seedlings, but so far have only managed to distribute about 32,000.
10 of the 43 health units damaged by Jokwe have been rebuilt. The authorities also rehabilitated 16,000 houses that had been damaged or destroyed by the disaster.
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Nampula governor Felismino Tocoli said that the authorities decided to taker advantage of the cyclone to re-organise housing, by demarcating 1,000 plots of land to be distributed to cyclone victims where they could build new homes.
Work still needs to be done to assess the needs in terms of materials to rebuild the 627 classrooms destroyed by the storm. This job is to be financed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
111,000 school text books have been distributed to pupils in grades one to seven, as well as manuals for their teachers. Because of the cyclone, about 98,000 pupils and 991 teachers lost their learning and teaching materials.
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