The Mozambique Red Cross (CVM) announces its intention to intensify its actions to respond to the humanitarian crisis and to help and protect the people in need in the country, which has been hit hard by natural disasters and terrorism.

According to VOA, last year the organization had a budget of just over two million and 500 thousand US dollars for humanitarian operations, but for 2022 it hopes to get more money to carry out its programs.

Yesterday, May 8, was Red Cross Day, and in Mozambique, and in the world in general, volunteers are asked to work always and increasingly, with kindness and humanity, in the care of victims and people in need.

The international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement celebrates the dedication, compassion, courage, and impact of millions of volunteers and countless individuals who offer help, care, and services to save the lives of millions more who, due to various factors, may be experiencing dramatic times of great distress.

In Mozambique, moments of distress are not lacking, they seem to be recurrent: the second most affected country by the effects of climate change, it has been plagued every year either by cyclones, floods, or extreme drought.

To better respond to these problems, the CVM is now adopting a new approach strategy: prevention.

"A simple example: you have precarious houses...the community...let's adjust the houses, improve the security of the houses, which is so that when it comes they won't be razed, move the populations to safe places. So all of this...These are various preventive actions to improve the condition of the populations. That the impact is not widespread and severe. Early action means that, so we already have a work with the Federation, with the German Red Cross", explains Abílio Campos, national director of Institutional and Resource Development and spokesman for the organization.

The CVM also says that in addition to mitigating the impacts caused by climate change, the organization will continue to pay special attention to the more than 850,000 citizens of Cabo Delgado who have been forced to relocate because of the terrorist attacks.

The humanitarian assistance, to these populations, will continue even though there are other countries also in need.

"To continue to deserve this, we have to be faithful, with loyalty, with credibility, to continue to deserve financial support from our donors," adds Abílio Campos who concludes that, without revealing figures, the CVM is receiving more and more international support to intervene in the country and that the traditional cooperation partners, who had withdrawn their support, are returning.