Island collection for Cyclone Idai victims

A street collection will be held today for the Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Cyclone Isai.

Volunteers will be on the streets in Douglas, Ramsey, Peel and Port Erin to raise funds.

People can also donate through www.dec.org.uk or by going to a Manx Coop store - where collecting tins are held. 

It comes following Cyclone Idai, which left a devastating trail across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe with over 750 reported dead, 400.000 made homeless and hundreds of thousands affected. 

The priority is to supply shelter, food, clean water and medical supplies to survivors and to prevent the spread of cholera.