According to MIDIMAR, the downpour which caused Sebeya River to overflow left five people injured, 26 houses completely destroyed, 924 partially destroyed and 138.5 hectares of crops damaged and one school affected.
While handing over the materials to affected families yesterday, the Disaster Management Coordinator at Rwanda Red Cross, Angelique Murungi said that as part of their mission to support the government in responding to disaster cases, they intervened in the case of Rubavu.
“We brought them kitchen kits like cooking pots, cups, spoons, mats, soaps and clothes among other materials worth Rwf15 million,” she said
Affected families hailed the support saying that they had no more means to manage to live.
“My domestic animals all died, among 58 chickens, they only remain two. I thank Red Cross for the support as we will base on it and manage to live, the remaining problem is a house as we are still accommodated in neighbors’ houses,” he said.
MIDIMAR Minister, Jeanne D’Arc De Bonheur said that they will extend the support to the remaining families as well as they continue to provide more support to all affected families.
“More are yet to come, because, we know that today’s support is not enough. On destroyed houses, we will consider the most disadvantaged families and we provide with the iron sheets,” she said.
Yesterday support benefitted 300 families, but the minister pledged that others will receive their support today.
Ecole d’Art de Nyundo students whose school materials were washed away also received school kits.
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