The flooded Zambezi river slowly is engulfing the only water point for the camp at Chupanga. Red Cross volunteers chlorinate the water to make it safe to drink. More then 3,000 people are living at the camp which is based around an abandoned Catholic mission.
More people arrive every day from communities now under the Zambezi.
Baby Ines with her mother Riqueta Tole wait for a consultation at the camp's health post, where Red Cross volunteers are assisting state doctors and nurses. The Federation's assessment team leader meets with local authorities in Chupanga. Once a small community of huts around the abandoned church of a Catholic mission, Chupanga now hosts a temporary camp for almost 3,000 people, who have sought refuge from flooding in central Mozambique that has destroyed their homes. Destroyed and forgotten during Mozambique's civil war, the community became a town overnight with the arrival of thousands of people evacuated from communities as Kague, Cocorico, Luabo, Chinde, Marromeu, Milha 12 and Sede - villages located too close to the flooded Zambezi river. Clean water, sanitation and health facilities are the main concerns, according to an International Federation assessment team, visiting the camp.