Floods forced Zimbabwean women to leave their homes. They rebuilt their lives but here’s what they still need

Tsholotsho, in western Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North province, is a remote rural district where families depend on small-scale farming in a harsh landscape marked by recurring droughts and seasonal floods. In 2017, Cyclone Dineo hit southern Africa, killing more than 250 people in Zimbabwe and several in Mozambique, destroying over 20,000 homes and sparking floods in Botswana and a wave of cholera cases in Mozambique and Malawi. In Tsholotsho, the cyclone caused the area’s Gwayi River to burst its banks, washing away homes, fields and belongings. Around 300 households were forced to relocate to a neighbouring area.