Rescue South Africa set up camp at Mozambique's second city Beira where they rescued thousands of people displaced by the natural disaster.
The team included Rescue SA members Ian Scher, Travis Trower and Klass Prinsloo, Conor Hardnady, Abrie Senekal and Gerhard Louw from the University of Johannesburg, SAPS search and rescue team members Francois Pretorius and Romal de Ros, IPSS medics Paul Herbst, Ceron Medows, Shane Rode, Armand Herbst and Daniel Lobjoit, ER24'S Marcel Nordin and Brian Allchin as well as Keanan Reynolds from the Durban University of Technology.
A SA medical and rescue team who responded to calls for assistance in Mozambique following the devastating Cyclone Idai received letters of commendation from the United Nations."It was devastating to see that many people starving out there for 36 hours, having to make that decision of who to take and who to leave is always a difficult one," said Reynolds.
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