InterAction Members Respond to Floods in Southern Africa

Date: March 2, 2000

Flooding, caused by weeks of torrential rain and exacerbated by a recent cyclone, have devastated parts of southern Africa, leaving hundreds feared dead and more than one million people displaced. Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland were severely affected by the floods; Mozambique was the hardest hit.

InterAction is a coalition of more than 160 US-based private relief, international development and refugee assistance organizations. InterAction members have agreed to abide by a set of standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence and quality of service. UMCOR is a part of InterAction.

People fleeing to higher land, week of February 27 (Credit: Philip Wijmans/ACT-LWF Trevo, Mozambique, February 2000)

How to Give Through UMCOR

You can support UMCOR's response to this disaster through donations to the Churchwide Appeal for Flood Recovery in Mozambique and Neighboring Countries, Advance #156500. Checks may be dropped in United Methodist church collection plates or mailed directly to UMCOR at 475 Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Credit-card donations can be made by calling 1-800-554-8583.