Debt relief Helping debtor countries by arranging reduced loans, making interest payments easier, or cancelling the debt. Brainstorm what they know about Mozambique. Discuss the images they have seen on television. Use a map or globe to locate it. Pupils can plan the routes they would take from their home country to Mozambique by air, sea and land.
Older pupils can look at the map of the floods in Southern Africa and do the activity below.
The flooding in Southern Africa, which has left hundreds dead and around 1.25 million homeless, is the worst in living memory. While Mozambique has borne the brunt of the disaster, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Madagascar. Rivers across the region burst their banks last week as Cyclone Eline swept in, bringing new rains to lands already waterlogged by more than two weeks of storms. Crops and village granaries have been washed away, destroying food supplies, and roads, bridges and dams have been destroyed. In Zambia, thousands of people face starvation because their crops were destroyed when the overspill gates of the giant Kariba Dam were opened amid fears it could burst.