Between Goma and Bukavu, the town of Nyamukubi, the rains caused the destruction of 100 houses in their wake, leaving 600 people on the streets and killing 4 people on April 27, 2022
This is a new disaster for the Region. Monday a hill collapsed in Bukavu, last week the water started to rise again in the neighborhoods of Uvira, and again last week, it was Kindu located at the same latitude as Uvira which had 3500 houses destroyed in one night.
Other villages around Nyamukubi were also affected, such as Bushushu.
The appeal launched by Delphin Birimbi, president of the Kalehe civil society consultation framework:
‹‹ We ask humanitarian organizations and other people of good will to help the families of the victims and the population to avoid building in inappropriate places ››
It is a series of natural disasters linked to the overabundance of rainwater that accelerates the destruction of known and listed heads of soil erosion.
“I had a conversation this afternoon with the UNHCR in the DRC who told me that preventive evacuations are not part of their mission. is also not in their original mission.
What do we do? We let people get inundated and ask them for hypothetical help? This is not acceptable to us. Those who have been flooded by water know that you can’t recover anything and there is no insurance out there that can buy everything back. It is a major humanitarian disaster that is happening in the DRC and we know it in advance.
Me, I can’t let disasters happen without doing anything. We know where the problems are, we know the areas that are prone to natural disasters. Now we have to do. We need funds for urban reconstruction. Healthy grounds, we find them, there are.
2 things are missing:
- the creation of a climate fund for natural disasters. A fair fund and not linked to the emotional of the donors.
- training Africans on the ground to manage their own climatic disasters. There are also a lot of goodwill on the spot.
We are ready to coordinate our NGO members and associations in the field. We lack the climate fund.”
Virginie Guignard Legros, President REGENERATION MATRIX group
