{"id":9817,"date":"2018-08-23T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2018-08-23T06:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:51:44","slug":"rumonge-flood-victims-in-mayengo-site-deplore-harsh-living-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/rumonge-flood-victims-in-mayengo-site-deplore-harsh-living-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumonge: Flood victims in \u201cMayengo\u201d site deplore harsh living conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 families, victims of floods that hit Muhuta and Bugarama communes of Rumonge southern province in February 2018, still ask for assistance. They say they do not have a shelter and plots to cultivate. Recently, they have been moved from \u201cCashi\u201d to Mayengo site in Rumonge Commune.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9818\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9818\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cashi-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Victims of floods in \u201cMayengo\u201d Site have been moved from \u201cCashi\u201d site in February 2018\" width=\"413\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cashi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cashi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cashi-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cashi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victims of floods in \u201cMayengo\u201d Site have been moved from \u201cCashi\u201d site in February 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They say the situation will go from bad to worse if nothing is done. \u201cWe have not received any assistance in the past six months. We only received assistance when we got here for the first time\u201d, says one of the victims adding that they got promises of assistance and dwelling a few months ago in vain.<\/p>\n<p>They live in torn tents due to heavy storm. \u201cWe are afraid of dying. The living conditions have worsened\u201d, says another woman adding that they are concerned by the lack of drinking water. \u201cWe fetch water at 2 km from the site\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, young people are threatened by hunger. \u201cStudents sometimes nod off in class because they didn\u2019t eat anything\u201d, says a teacher adding that they really need to be assisted.<\/p>\n<p>The victims of the floods call on the Social Affairs Ministry to assist them. Local administrative officials say they are aware of people\u2019s difficult conditions in \u201cMayengo\u201d site. \u201cWe have submitted several reports and are still waiting for the assistance,\u201d says an administrative official from Kigwena Commune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 families, victims of floods that hit Muhuta and Bugarama communes of Rumonge southern province in February 2018, still ask for assistance. They say they do not have a shelter and plots to cultivate. Recently, they have been moved from \u201cCashi\u201d to Mayengo site in Rumonge Commune. They say the situation will go from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[257,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}