Two months after the passage of Cylone Chido, Fahad Idaroussi Timanda, a geographer, focusing on “informal” Maiota counties returned to Caven, within the biggest slum in France, partly renovated. He recounts the misery of the population who misplaced the whole thing and that the French is a finger political elegance.
His diary offers us an hour consistent with hour of disaster tales. The 3rd phase.
Virtually two months after the passage of Chido Ciclon, I am going north of the straw Caven (Bandrajou). On the front to this slum, no longer some distance from Lumieres, a number of tons of waste and hulking gadgets (leaves, picket, family waste, and many others.) nonetheless muddle flooring. I nonetheless pay attention the sound of the sheet of which hammer. For some is a part of the roof that has no longer but been finished. Others nonetheless desperately search leaves to have a roof and break out with the circle of relatives.
I ask some folks why they haven't completed rebuild but. I responded:
“There is a lack of leaves. Those we could recover are not enough for restoration. Those who still have no more can be used, because the wind crumpled them.” »
Some citizens cancel brief or leaves of leaves that use this disaster to extend their costs.
“Before two-tiny leaves sold in 11 or 12 euros, but now they went to 23 euros.” »
On the other hand, virtually all insecure, casual and illegally housing citizens had been renovated an identical, with none intervention of native government. The French executive, alternatively, expressed the need to ban and save you the reconstruction of Maiotte slums. As High Minister Francois Bairou stated:
“State and local government agree to prohibit and prevent slum reconstruction.” »
Slum Kaveni, Maiotte, in January 2025. years. Fahad Idaroussi Tsimanga, supplied by way of the writer (with out use) “We have nothing”
Ahead of a crisis, lifestyles was once already tough: households slept at the outdated dressed in mattresses, in residential residences from leaves and rafters, with excessive promiscuity and restricted get admission to to water and restricted get admission to to water and restricted get admission to to water and restricted get admission to. Of the cyclone, the location deteriorated. Many don’t have any extra sleep mattresses. Satisfied tensed at the mom of straw or plywood. The second one lies without delay at the clay, seeking to sleep despite discomfort.
To get admission to the water, households touring, as ahead of the passage of cyclones, windings and strong altargers on masses of meters to gasoline on small issues on smaller fountain terminals, positioned at the fringe of formal village and slum.
Some households used sun panels (most likely stolen at the streets of Mamoudzou) to remove darkness from their house or to ship the refrigerator, however the cyclone took or destroyed them. Many slum citizens now use their telephones or candles to mild and transfer.
In those unsure districts, the circle of relatives misplaced a number of items that they had. Some had all their financial savings at house, below a bed or within the cloth cabinet. The wind has taken the whole thing. The girl testifies:
“I'll have to start over again. How hard is it! We haven't had much, now we have nothing, but nothing at all.”
Some households had been coping with tomato, cucumbers in public land – with out approval – or on personal land, with an settlement at the proprietor. Chido devastated the whole thing and at the stalls, on the market most commonly cocoons.
At stalls, greens are much less not unusual, there are principally cocoons. Fahad Idaroussi Tsimanga, supplied by way of the writer (with out use)
If the cultivators are mostlyed, muffins dealers (donut in the neighborhood named Goulagoula), juice, sandwiches close to the colleges and secondary colleges, in addition to staff engaged within the Mahorais fields or farms, discovered the glance of 'actions.
Distribution d'Eides sous stress
Auxiliary distributions (water, rice bag, flour, sardine bins, tomato bins, and many others.), must unencumber the misery of the population, whether or not the resources of anxiety. The products and services of town halls have established gasoline issues within the town middle – on soccer box, in entrance of the MJC, on a big public trg. However for comorians in an unsuitable scenario, departure there’s a possibility. Some colours of police regulate and expulsion. For concern, some surrender on assist meals and write neighbors or kinfolk in an ordinary scenario to regain meals in position.
Households know that those AIDS won’t remaining (they have got already completed within the Commune Koungou), I learn melancholy at the faces. Others smiling announcing that Muzunga (time period denoting Metropolitan in Chimaor) got here to their community giant pots and cooked with them.
Chido led to human losses (about thirty deadly circumstances based on legitimate evaluation), subject material injury, but additionally disturbed training of kids over the island, particularly within the straw. Many youngsters dwelling in casual community misplaced their college apparatus. However after not on time go back for 2 weeks, some top colleges and schools greet scholars for a gentle restoration. At the License des Lumieres, the place I train geography, we offer college apparatus and knit.
Why direct your finger on us?
Whilst the political elegance emphasizes the “immersion of migration” of the fonders dwelling in Mayots and requires the harvest of soil regulation, concern grows in CAveny. Some folks choose to cover at house, proscribing their adventure to not meet the police. “We are like ghosts, we live hidden,” stated Mariam, the mummy of 3 youngsters.
License des lumieres scholars are excited by:
“If access to citizenship or permit to stay hardened, how do we continue studies? To BAC, these documents are not needed, but after that they are. Our future is fucked.” »
The High Minister is on Mayota, 28. January 2025. years, the High Minister condemned “Migratory Briefs”, in Maiotte.
Dad is questioning:
“Why do you show us your finger?” Many don't also have a sleep bed, and we’re marked as in charge. »»
Every other upload:
“After Operation Vuambusha in 2023. 12 months, which resulted in the destruction of masses of bins, the location was once advanced. Delinquency and assaults are nonetheless there. We’ve disloded households, however not anything was once solved. Government are simply crossed the issues. »»
