As always, children are the most vulnerable in an emergency. As well as being forced to leave their homes and being separated from their families, the biggest risk for children affected by flooding is life-threatening water-borne diseases, such as diarrhoea.

"We know that what children will need most urgently is shelter, clean water to drink and enough food to eat," said Chris McIvor, Save the Children UK's programme director in Mozambique, "and we are working to keep their lives as normal and as safe as possible.