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By Duncan Luke
Sasol helps rebuild Mozambican school amid cyclone Idai aftermath. In March 2019, a category 4 cyclone hit the Mozambican city of Beira and its surrounding districts, affecting more than one million people. The city was reduced to dust by almost 90%. Social services were severely impacted while private businesses, homes and government infrastructures were all brought down. Sasol joined hands with the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Company and Central Termica de Ressano Garcia Gas to immediately contribute to the reduction of the negative effects of this disaster in Sofala and northern Inhambane. Together, a total of US$650 000 was provided for projects implemented in partnership with Red Cross Mozambique. After almost two years, the Red Cross has completed the rehabilitation of all infrastructures in both Beira and Inhambane. Three health centres were rehabilitated in Beira and handed over to the government in a formal inauguration attended by local administrators. Recently, the Red Cross also completed the last of the two primary schools that required repair and rehabilitation in northern Inhambane. Chitsecane primary school, with a total of 209 students who were split up into two shifts, studied in very precarious conditions for almost two years as five classrooms and an admin block were destroyed in the storm. It is a new dawn for both teachers and students. A formal inauguration is being prepared by the school and the community. Celestina Nhiquetuane Munguambe, the school headmaster, expressed her delight at the rehabilitation of the school.