The misfortunes of a people upon a people benefits.. A water seller in Madagascar is happy with the rains of Hurricane Patsirai

Massey, a 25-year-old water seller, is grateful for the torrential rains that fell last week when Cyclone Batsirae swept through Madagascar.

Massi lives with her five children in the town of Sambona, which is in an area that suffers from a severe and prolonged drought and the sudden rain means she can sell more water to drivers heading to the city of Ambovombe.

"My job is to sell water. If I can sell water we will eat, if I don't sell anything we will sleep (hungry)," she told Reuters near her kiosk on the side of a major road in southern Madagascar.

She added that she currently gets water from a ditch near the road, but at other times she has to buy it.

She said the rain filled the hole with enough water for a week.

Madagascar, with a population of about 30 million, is facing food shortages in the south due to drought, and Massey said on some days she had to eat wild plants.

"We are really hungry, we don't eat for lunch, and in the evening we find wild plants and we boil them to eat, and in the morning we don't eat," she said.

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