HoverAid are responding to the current flood and imminent cyclone in Mozambique. Hovercraft are ideally suited to flood relief work and that's what they intend to do.

As of 12 hours ago the relatively small cyclone that was threatening the south of Mozambique has intensified and turned north. At Category 4 it is almost as big as cyclones get (as bad or worse than Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans) and it is now heading directly for the area where there are already 70,000 people displaced, and 200,000 at risk. This is quite possibly the worst possible situation that could have arisen, and aid organisations are scrambling to get their people OUT of the area - that gives you an idea of the potential risk over the coming day or two.

HoverAid has a hovercraft in next door Zimbabwe, and used it for flood relief in Mozambique in 2000. They are now a full time organisation with a long term project running in Madagascar and on Sunday we took the decision to deploy the hovercraft in Zimbabwe which is currently mothballed. They need £10,000 to get it up and running and moved into Mozambique as fast as they can to enable relief work, food distribution, etc The hovercraft is a good alternative to the one helicopter currently available.

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