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Mozambique Floods Emergency
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
As the end of the century approached, Mozambique was making great strides recovering from a devastating civil war, but then, cyclones and catastrophic flooding struck in 2000 and 2001. The 2000 flood killed 500 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Much of the country's infrastructure was destroyed, undoing years of war recovery work. Rebuilding continues.
Please continue to give your gifts the Churchwide Appeal for Flood Recovery in Mozambique and Neighboring Countries by giving to UMCOR Advance #156500. One hundred percent of your gift goes to this emergency. The generous giving of United Methodists to the One Great Hour of Sharing supplements the cost of Advance gifts. Give through a local United Methodist church or send financial contributions to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a credit card donation.
Health kits are needed for Mozambique and other areas of the world. Call the UMCOR Depot at 1-800-814-8765 for health kit assembly and shipping instructions or visit UMCOR's emergency kits web page. Medicine boxes are critically needed. If you are interested in the Medicine Box project, please call 212-870-3683 for further information, order a Medicine Box kit from the Service Center 1-800-305-9857, or get the information on the web.
Onsite and Partner News
- UMCOR Hotline, March 14, 2003.
- UMCOR Hotline, March 7, 2003.
- 23,000 Homeless in Mozambique, Disaster News Network, March 5, 2003.
- UMCOR Hotline, February 7, 2003.
- Floods Hit Mozambique, Leave 100,000 Homeless, Disaster News Network, February 6, 2003.
- UMCOR Hotline, May 17, 2002.
- Mozambique Flood Recovery News, UMCOR Inasmuch Update, Fall 2001.
- United Methodists Address Flood Problems in Mozambique, UMNS, March 9, 2001.
- From the Water's Point of View: Life During the Mozambique Floods as Seen from a Canoe by Pamela Zintatu Ntshanga, ACT, March 2001.
- UMCOR Hotline, February 28, 2001.
- Mozambique Floods 2000 News Archives.
Offsite News
- Africa News: Mozambique.
- Disaster News Network.
- Relief Web, United Nations, Mozambique Floods
ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). When a disaster strikes, it features news from UMCOR and other relief agencies.
Maps, Photos, and Facts
- Photographs of the Recovery Efforts, UMCOR, December 2000 (may be reproduced with credit)
- Mozambique Floods: UMCOR's Response, October 2000 (may be reproduced with credit)
- Radios for Mozambicans, photo essay, April 2000
- Mozambique Floods, March 2000 (may be reproduced with credit)
- Mozambique: GBGM Country Profile
- Small Map of Mozambique
- Maps of Africa, 1998 and 1999, various formats