‘It has to be us’: How a diaspora rushed to raise aid after Cyclone Idai
It wasn’t much. Just $5. But as Tatenda Murecha sent the small donation hurtling across the internet from his home in Turkey last week, he felt a little less helpless.
Nearly 6,000 miles away, in his home country of Zimbabwe and neighboring Mozambique and Malawi, hundreds of thousands of people had seen their world disappear underwater, devastated by a tropical storm called Cyclone Idai that experts were already beginning to call the worst natural disaster in the Southern Hemisphere’s recent history.
Images from the pummeled region showed exhausted victims clinging to treetops or balancing on tin roofs as floodwaters rushed past
