“Mr. Macron, bring supplies, otherwise there’s no point in coming! », says Mouatamou Mzemamou in the courtyard of the school where he sleeps. His village of Bouyouni, totally devastated, has still not seen any state aid arrive, five days after the passage of Cyclone Chido. “There is nothing that will change. If he brings clothes, solutions, then yes, but if he comes just to see houses that are broken, it’s nothing in fact,” continues this young man who discovers the arrival of the President of the Republic this Thursday .
The municipalities of northern Mayotte paid a particularly heavy price to the devastating cyclone. Mouatamou became aware of the danger when he saw the security measures taken in the company where he was on an internship. But in his neighborhood, “all the neighbors thought it was “kavou” (nothing),” he continues, and very few followed him when he took shelter at school.
There are a few dozen of them, mostly women and children, sleeping in this school on the floor, without the possibility of washing or a change of clothes. The water reserve has been empty for a long time and only one association came to drop off a box of chicken breasts. “It’s humiliating: we no longer go to the toilet because they stink. People have had the same clothes since the cyclone passed, they are going to get sick from wearing them,” says the boy.
