Flooding in Tanzania - Final Update

20 December 2011

With the help of local government and churches, the community of Mwanza is recovering well from the flooding of 14 November. Compassion Tanzania’s Country Director recently visited the families to provide encouragement and to see how they were faring.

Further funding to address infrastructure requirements has been approved and improvements continue to be made. Please pray as the affected families continue to return to normal life.

Compassion Tanzania will not provide further updates as they consider the situation to be stable.

18 November 2011

The residents of Mwanza began to clean up after the 14 November flooding. Staff members at the Compassion projects provided food, shelter and encouragement to the affected families. Members of the impacted churches also kindly opened their homes as shelters.

24 children from seven projects in Mwanza were affected: TAG Sayuni Temple Igogo Student Centre, ELCT Bugando Student Centre, Anglican Kirumba Student Centre, Baptist Nyamanoro Student Centre, East Buzuruga Student Centre, FPCT Pasiansi Student Centre, and AICT Ilemela Student Centre. The homes and latrines belonging to these families were damaged.