Cyclone Freddy Relief

Thank you for your generous contribution to ActionAid's humanitarian relief in response to Cyclone Freddy. 

A few months have passed since Cyclone Freddy's landfall in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe and ActionAid has been working hard with local partners to provide survivors with essential items and safe spaces. Our strategy for emergency response always prioritizes the needs of marginalized groups, especially women and children. We are continuing to speak with affected women and youth in temporary camps to understand their urgent needs, which includes food, shelter, clothing, and issues around hygiene and managing periods. 

In Malawi, we have distributed multi-purpose cash to 1,000 of the worst affected women, child-headed households, lactating moms and disabled people.

In Mozambique, we have supplied 12 farmers' associations with seeds to support food production in the highlands, where many survivors have had to relocate, to remain safe from cyclone-induced flooding. We have also distributed 600 hygiene/dignity kits to women and girls whom are living in these temporary upland communities, to help them manage their periods.

Lastly, as a rights-based humanitarian organization, we understand that to improve survivors' living conditions more permanently, we cannot just transfer resources to the communities we work with, but we also need to work to shift power to these communities. So, we are working closely with relevant government institutions in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe and other climate change organizations to advocate for the rights of survivors.

This work would not be possible without partners like you: caring individuals who are willing to give what they can. 

Thank you so much for your generosity and support.