Malawi issues appeal for Karonga earthquake victims
Malawi government has launched an appeal to provide emergency assistance to thousands of victims of the earthquake that shook northern region border district of Karonga.
Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs in the Office of President and Cabinet, Lillian Ng’oma said in a media statement: “The assistance will help alleviate the suffering amongst the affected people.”
The statement says that among many other items, the assistance required include maize flour, matemba/kapenta fish, beans, iodised kitchen salt, Likuni phala, cooking oil, milk, sugar, corn soya blend, tents for shelter and to be used as classrooms.
Other relief items needed are blankets, plastic sheets, plastic plates, plastic cups, spoons, matches, firewood, candles, jericans and building materials.
Government says donations should be channeled through the Department of Disaster Management Affairs, Private Bag 336, Lilongwe 3 or directly to the District Commissioner for Karonga.
Those paying through a bank cheque should pay the “National Disaster Appeal Fund”.
A one-year-old child died following a series of earthquakes (pictured) experienced the first week of December and several people were reported injured. Most of the mud-and-thatch houses built along the epicenter of the earthquake crumbled hundreds homeless.
“A camp has been established for the displaced people. The earth quakes have also damaged institutional infrastructure such as school blocks, teachers’ houses, police houses, health centers and boreholes,” said government in the statement.
Vice President Joyce Banda was the first to console the victims in Karonga and followed by President Bingu wa Mutharika.
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Did someone write that there are plans to uproot Katoto Fillig Station in Mzuzu (Harry’s), to make way for a round-about? If so, I have no doubt all people of Mzuzu and the entire North will demand that the funds for this unceremonious undertaking be redirected to the noble cause of Karonga relief programme. Dada Kachale, ndimwe nduna ya vya uzengi ase nthena? Ivi chara!! Charo ni mazgora!!
Good people, please assist us here in Karonga in anyway you can. Just many people are homeless and the rains, its just so hard in Ngelenge…
ZAMBUYO MWA ALENDO.
AND TO WHOM IS THE GOVT APPEALING FOR THE ASSISTANCE?
WITH THE MUCH ACCLAIMED ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BUMPER HARVESTS PAST THREE YEARS, YOU MEAN GOVT NEEDS AN APPEAL FOR maize flour, matemba/kapenta fish, beans, iodised kitchen salt, Likuni phala, cooking oil, milk, sugar, corn soya blend, tents for shelter and to be used as classrooms?
CHIMENECHI NDE TIMATI CHILOZOWEDZI CHA NAKHOLOWA!!!
Lets pray that the victims be helped soon.However,this earthquake is a wrath to those who are against the quota system.
WENEKAMO! WENEKAMO! Watch your mouth. God is not equal to a human being. You may as well face unpredictable circumstances. Sure, what you have said here just shows how bad you hate northerners – ONCE AGAIN, WATCH YOUR MOUTH.
What is the role of the Department of Disaster Management? Is it to solicit aid in times of disaster? Anybody can do that. What role do they play when there is no disaster? In my veiw, they should be soliciting for these funds and materials in readiness for a catastrophes like this one here. Yes, they need to stock pile on relief items and have funds available for these scenarios beforehand.
The department is usless and needs to be scrapped.
The rain season is here, are you prepared for floods in the lower states? Or you are going to appeal for aid while at OPC while people are destitute.
What a shame
FRIENDS, MALAWIANS AND COUNTRY MEN LEND ME UR EARS. THIS IS A DISASTER THAT HAS SHAKEN ALL OF US. THE ISSUE IS NOT TO ADDRESS FOOD RELIEF ONLY. BUT TO SENSITIZE PEOPLE ABOUT THE EARTH’S MOVEMENT. THE NORTH IS THE NARROW WAY OF THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY AS SUCH THE CORE OF THE EARTH IS PRONE TO DISTURBANCES. THERE IS A CONTIONOUS PRESSURE ALONG SIDE THE BED OF LAKE MALAWI AS SUCH IT FORCES THE MAIN LAND TO BALANCE ITSELF WITH THE SEA BED. THIS CAUSES EARTH QUAKES SOON WE SHALL HAVE LAND SLIDES AND MUD SLIDES. MR MINISTER TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH THIS IS THE RELIEF THEY WANT ABANDON THOSE HARD PLACES AND LIVE OR WAIT AND EXPECT TO DIE. MOTHER NATURE IS FIGHTING BACK!!!!
They want me to write a check direct2 the DC?