These photographs show some of the UMCOR's recovery efforts in Mozambique, which suffered devastating floods in February 2000. At the right of the small pictures are links to larger versions in either web (low resolution, 72 dpi, 20-50K) or printed media (high resolution, 300 dpi, 750-950K) format. Those for the web have been cropped; those for printed media reproduce the complete original photograph. As noted below, some originals are vertical photographs.
Please use the credit line provided. If you are posting these on the web, we would appreciate a link back to UMCOR's Mozambique Floods Recovery page, http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/mozambiquefloods.stm.
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Photographs of the Floods and Relief Efforts (February-March 2000)
Photographs of the Recovery Efforts (UMCOR, December 2000)
Food supplies arrive in the Mambone District after an arduous journey over roads that were heavily damaged by the floods.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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The UMC in Mozambique distributes rice, sugar, maize, flour and other food supplies to flood survivors.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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The UMC in Mozambique distributes rice, sugar, maize, flour and other food supplies to flood survivors.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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These older women were among those who traveled to the food distribution site to receive relief supplies.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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Food is distributed in Maimelane Village.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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UMCOR and The United Methodist Church in Mozambique will provide this woman with a more stable, flood resistant home made of earthen bricks.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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The United Methodist Church in Mozambique, in partnership with UMCOR and the United Methodist Church in Germany, will build permanent, flood resistant homes in this village.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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Flood survivors received health kits in addition to food supplies.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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UMCOR relief kits are distributed to flood survivors in Chokwe, Gaza province.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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This bridge was one of many washed away in the floods. Those who can’t afford the ferry hold on to the electrical cable to cross the river.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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Cyclone Eline and the heavy rains early this year turned much of the infrastructure, like schools and other community buildings, into skeletons.
Credit: UMC Mozambique, copyright © 2000
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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.