It has been more than a week since Virginia Samuel last saw two of her children.
Virginia Samuel sits with two of her four children at a camp for people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
“I have to pray to God, so I can see my mother and my children again,” she said, wiping tears with her patterned skirt at a camp for displaced people in the nearby port city of Beira. From Mozambique, the cyclone ripped through neighboring Zimbabwe and Malawi, flattening homes and causing deadly mudslides. At least 738 people were killed in the storm and heavy rains before it hit.Entire villages were submerged, roads cut off and communications knocked out, complicating the search for missing loved ones.
Unaccompanied children are referred to social services, who will place them in an orphanage and try to trace parents, said Jean Benoit Manhes, team leader for U.N. children’s agency UNICEF in Beira.
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