The children crowd displacement camps, sleeping rough on plastic tarps on bare brick floors, or on the wooden benches of crowded schools. When the orphaned children approach with questions, Sithole uses tough love and deflection: Eat this. "Children are children," he said. In the Agostinho Neto primary school in Beira, 270 children displaced by the cyclone now live in classrooms, all of them thought to have at least one guardian. When the cyclone hit their neighborhood of shacks near the sea and peeled their roofs away, she and other young mothers gathered what children they could and fled.

Source: ABC News March 25, 2019 10:04 UTC