It has been more than ten days since Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte.

I am currently in the Kaweni shantytown, where those who can are rebuilding their huts. There are many who don't have the resources to do so and whose houses remain a pile of sheet metal and wood. All complain of having finished their meagre rice reserves and are now surviving on wheat porridge.



With the cyclone, most have lost all sources of income. They generally lived from small informal jobs and the island's economy is very disrupted. Not only are they living on a pile of sheet metal, but they have no access to drinking water and they're hungry. They are hungry because there has still been no food distribution in the shanty towns and the meagre resources they had disappeared with the cyclone.

They also often injure themselves on the rusty metal sheets and nails that are scattered in the rubble. MSF set up mobile clinics in the various shantytowns to treat these wounds and the infections that follow. We are also starting to repair water points that were damaged by the cyclone. In addition to this support, MSF is today calling for the food distributions that will be made in Mayotte to benefit everyone and not leave aside vulnerable populations living in the shanty towns.