Today Brother Licinio is in Maputo to buy new
supplies to the Orphan Centre in Chinhacanine. He is using funds from our
Emergency Fund, that you so generously contributed to this week, and also the
goods donated at the campaign in the American School of Maputo. Today he will
also purchase flour to take to the Centre as soon as possible.
Other good news is that several seminar students
have been transferred to Chokwe to help the relief effort. There they are
preparing meals and giving them to the neediest people under the supervision of
Father Miguel. They are also selecting the most urgent intervention areas by
visiting each neighborhood to assess how many sick, injured, elderly or
immobile people there are so they have access to food also. They are bringing
biscuits and porridge to the very young children and even milk to the babies
born this week after the floods!
Brother Licinio will continue his efforts in the
CRPE Orphan centre but also in Chokwe, where the “poorest of the poor” are
based without being able to move into Chinhacanine. In Changalene (20kms from Chokwe) there are
already international health relief teams from Caritas, the Red Cross and Médicos
do Mundo, who have established local support units this week.
If you
live in Maputo or have friends there, you can still participate! Our campaign
to gather donated goods continues, see more here:
http://alittlegesture.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/alg-friends-in-maputo-needed.html
If you
want to donate to our Emergency Fund, we are sending funds on a daily basis,
every small donation helps!
Help our emergency appeal by making
your donation here
Every Little Gesture Counts!
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