{"id":38369,"date":"2023-01-11T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims"},"modified":"2023-01-11T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:10:04","slug":"dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","title":{"rendered":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 households hit by floods in some parts of Karonga District.<\/p>\n<p>The donation which included a 50-kilogram bag of maze, 10 metres of plastic sheets and plates followed heavy rains that fell last week on December 30 which has so far affected over 1000 households at Mweneyumba and Zinde in the area of Traditional Authority, (T.A) Kyungu.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview Relief and Rehabilitation Officer for Karonga District Council Shepard Jeri, said DODMA through the council deemed it necessary to donate the items considering the gravity of the damage the floods have caused the area and the families.<\/p>\n<p>Further saying the assistance will go a long way in cautioning the effects of the devastation that families experienced. \u201cWe know there are a multitude of victims out there that need urgent attention and support hence the assistance which we believe will make a significant impact one way or another,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Jeri has since disclosed plans to engage chiefs in an effort to identify land that will be allocated to communities residing in the flood prone areas to relocate to upland in order to prevent and protect further disasters from happening.<\/p>\n<p>One of the beneficiaries Lindsey Mwangonde of Mwanyongo village in TA Kyungu, expressed gratitude for the assistance as she recalled the night of December 30th as she was awoken by raging water that made there way to her house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never anticipated that we would be receiving the donation its like a dream come true hence I can now smile,\u201d she articulated.<\/p>\n<p>On his part Chairperson for Mpande Area Civil Protection Committee (ACPC) Advocate Mbale, appealed for further assistance in farming inputs as many families have lost all of their crops that they had planted a situation which further threaten food security in their households and the district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 households hit by floods in some parts of Karonga District. The donation which included a 50-kilogram bag of maze, 10 metres of plastic sheets and plates followed heavy rains that fell last week on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,9],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-38369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\"},\"wordCount\":328,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\",\"name\":\"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405,\"caption\":\"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims - Malawi","description":"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims","og_description":"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":405,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims","datePublished":"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims"},"wordCount":328,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Malawi"],"articleSection":["all news","Featured","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims","name":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-11T21:41:26+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-11T22:10:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Department of Disaster Management Afairs (DODMA) on Thursday, January 6, 2023 distributed relief items to over 473 h ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673460742.76.jpg","width":720,"height":405,"caption":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dodma-donates-to-karonga-flood-victims#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DODMA donates to Karonga flood victims"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}