1,200 people displaced by continued heavy rains receive aid

Silver Spring, Maryland—The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing emergency food packages for 1,200 flood survivors in Zambia after heavy rains and flooding washed away homes, crops, and livelihoods and displaced more than 334,000 people in Zambia as well as Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

ADRA Zambia will distribute maize meal, vegetable oil, salt, and Kapenta—a sardine-like fish—to 150 households, or approximately 1,200 flood survivors in the heavily affected Monze district, where more than 3,200 people have been displaced after flooding destroyed their homes.(more)