Following the passage of tropical cyclone Chido, which hit the Mayotte archipelago, several communities are mobilizing in response to the urgency and scale of the situation. Among them, the Métropole du Grand Nancy and the City of Nancy.
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After the passage of Cyclone Chido, dozens of communities released exceptional aid to help Mayotte. The archipelago is ravaged and a race against time begins. “If the human toll remains extremely difficult to stabilize, the consequences of this cyclone are already dramatic“explain the Métropole du Grand Nancy and the City of Nancy in a press release, published this Monday, December 16, 2024, “the entire department is now under rubble, and hundreds, even thousands of dead, injured and homeless people can be counted.“.
The Metropolis and the City “wish to mobilize as quickly as possible, including the payment of subsidies of up to 10,000 euros for each of the two communities.“
The Greater Nancy Metropolis will propose to a vote, during the next metropolitan council on December 19, an exceptional subsidy of 10,000 euros paid to Secours populaire français. The action of the association and its partners on site is long-term to support the victims. The City of Nancy will provide similar support during its next municipal council in January 2025.
Dijon and its metropolis also announced a payment of 100,000 euros to the Red Cross of Côte-d’Or, which deployed teams, or the agglomeration of Bourg-en-Bresse, Clermont-Ferrand and Viry-Châtillon and the cities of Nice and Marseille.
The Association of Small Towns in France called for emergency “general mobilization” by inviting its elected officials to financially support the Fondation de France.
