On the occasion of the Department's permanent committee this Friday, January 24, the Haute-Marne Departmental Council voted for an emergency aid of € 20,000 to support Mayotte, victim of Cyclone Chido.
Mayotte underwent the passage of an intensity of an intensity never known on December 14, 2024. On January 11, Mayotte was struck by a new devastating storm. The Indian Ocean archipelago is completely ravaged. The subject was mentioned in permanent committee on the departmental council.
Beyond the considerable material losses, Nicolas Lacroix, president of the Haute-Marne Departmental Council reported the situation which continues to deteriorate in the absence of promised aid. “” The inhabitants of Mayotte are hungry, they still have not had a school year, their department saw a health crisis with in particular the arrival of cholera ».
Faced with this observation, the Haute-Marne department wished to support the department of Mayotte. By solidarity between departments, the community thus voted favorably the granting of emergency aid of € 20,000, paid to a special account opened by departments of France intended to collect first emergency donations. “” This aid will therefore abound a fund which will first be used for rescue operations, and then for reconstruction ».
-Half of the Mahorais agents did not go back to work in Mayotte, the hotel in the department being completely destroyed, € 220,000 are expected in an emergency. Thanks to this solidarity fund, almost € 1.6 million is already gathered to help them directly.
MP Laurence Robert-dehault took the floor on the subject, evoking the information communicated by her colleague Anchya Bamana, deputy in Mayotte. “Officials on the spot tell ministers that everything is going well to make people think that they did the job. (…) Mayotte is in vital emergency because of the lack of water with networks cuts, obligation to put chlorine pastilles to purify water including in tap water and my colleague told me that it was is not to reassure the population. Cholera is spreading; Waste is no longer picked up, which is a source of additional contamination and hospital structures are devastated. Many slums were discovered following the trees torn off. Wild barracks mainly occupied by illegal migrants hid under the forests. In short, if first emergency rescue is hard at work, concerns and questions remain with regard to reconstruction. Of course, we will vote this essential aid to ward off the emergency of the situation. »»
