We didn't know his name and we couldn't see his face. But amid the grim scene of a cyclone-devastated village in Mozambique, a little boy skipped down the street, oblivious to the suffering of his fellow cyclone survivors, at least for a while.
A displaced young boy sleeps on the floor at a school in Buzi district, 200 kilometers outside Beira, Mozambique, on Saturday, March 23, 2019. People left the cyclone-shattered city of Beira for the town of Buzi, which for a week people had been fleeing to with little but their clothes.
Like many children in the wake of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, he was alone. But he seemed to have a destination, and that put him well ahead of most. Hundreds of thousands of uprooted lives, many of them children, have been scattered by the storm that roared in on March 14. Homes were washed away by rivers that burst their banks, sending waters rushing over a vast stretch of central Mozambique, as high as the tops of trees.
Phones barely ring or ping, if at all. Internet service was severed and is only now inching back with the aid of emergency responders. In the port city of Beira, fishing boats pulled up one by one on the beach carrying survivors ashore from Buzi and other places. Zacarias Mauta stood alone. He had come from Buzi, where he survived by climbing a tree. Four days later a helicopter plucked him up and brought him to Beira, a city he had never seen.
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