Mozambique

 

Mozambique is one of the world´s poorest countries. Decades of war and civil strife were ended by the signing of a peace agreement in 1992. Following the elections of 1994, rebuilding and development began again in Mozambique. Roads and bridges were repaired and field cultivated once more. Hundreds of schools were renovated or newly built in rural areas. Teachers were being trained and more and more children started schooling. Even though Mozambique struggled with great problems, the period from 1994 to 1998 brought one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. However, the floods in February of 2000 and now again in 2001, have had a devastating effect on the central and southern regions of the country, in some areas putting development back 10 to 15 years.

Humana People to People (known here as ADPP - Ajuda de Desenvolvimento Povo para Povo) has been working in Mozambique since 1984. In Mozambique you will speak Portuguese, and the projects which our school is currently sending volunteers to are listed below.

 

President: Armando Guebuza.

Population: 19,686,505.

Land Area: total: 801,590 sq km.

Religion: Indigenous beliefs (70%), Christian (15%), Muslim (13%).

Language: Emakhuwa (26.1%), Xichangana (11.3%), Portuguese (8.8% official; spoken by 27% of population as a second language), Elomwe (7.6%), Cisena (6.8%), Echuwabo (5.8%), other mozambican languages (32%), other foreign languages (0.3%), unspecified (1.3%).

Life expectancy: 39.82 years.

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 12.2% (2003 est.).

Ethnic groups: African (99.66%: Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Euro-Africans (0.2%), Indians (0.08%), Europeans (0.06%).

ADPP Mozambique

 

Taking into account the nation’s great need of trained teachers, seeing the growing demand due to the increasing number of children in school age, mainly in the rural areas, and also the necessities imposed by economic and social development, it was decided together with the Ministry of Education and Culture, to establish EPF’s in the Provinces where they do not yet exist and duplicate them in the most populated provinces.

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ADPP College Maputo

 

DAPP TECHNICAL COLLEGE

There is no need to picture a big necessity for education and qualification of young people in Mozambique. The further education, the training in a profession, is as well a very necessary step for the youth of Mozambique. Since the civil war ended in 1992, there is a big need for economical growth. It is the young generation, who is responsible for the further development of the country. There is a big need for educating young people, who are ready and able to take an active part in the development of their country, modern young people who are prepared for a modern world and it's rapid development. Young people who can:

· Take a 100% responsibility.
· Take charge of their own life.
· Lead and organise other people.
· Think and act fast.
· Work in a team and at the same time, take individual responsibility.

There is a need for people with knowledge in basic management and skills.

 

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE

The objectives of the Technical College is to train, teach and educate young people. The DAPP College is a boarding school. The program lasts for two years. The students will pass grade 8 to 10 combined with a professional basic training in one of the following courses:

· Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.
· Construction.
· Commerce and Administration.
· Community Instructor.

During the course they learn to be disciplined, to be productive, to be responsible and get a broader view of the modern world. It is a school where the students obtain knowledge and skills they will use in real life, and the students must themselves be able to use what they learn. The students must learn how to improve their life and keep healthy habits, and how to make it better for others. After the 2 years course a part of the graduates will continue with studies to obtain the medium level of technical training, to be engineer, others work during the day and complete their studies at night. Some have the possibility to work within the projects of ADPP.

 

 

All in all there are 50% of the time basic school studies grade 8 to 10, about 20% disciplines of the courses in theory and about 20% are practice and production. 10% of the time are planned for other programmes, like knowledge about the world, organising big events, learning and teaching in different situations, sports and culture. Out over this there are evening and spare time programs for the boarding students.

In the end of each period the students will have an examination. According to the investigation and practice periods, there will be People's examination with friends of the school, of the enterprises and parents invited.

 

THE TEACHERS COUNCIL

The teachers are partly class teachers and partly part time teachers. The class teachers are 100% responsible for the daily running of the school together with the students and one Headmaster. There is a group of teachers, who has a special responsibility together with the headmaster, like the planning of the pedagogical programme, the economy or the daily running of the school. The part-time teachers are giving lessons according to their subjects and participate in the teachers meetings as well as in activities in the program. In addition to the teachers there are following staff at the school:

· Administration Department: 3 employees; responsible for reception, answering the telephone, accountancy and bookkeeping.
· Domestic area: 4 employees; organising the kitchen, doing the weekly shopping, preparing the food and cleaning the kitchen.
· Transport: 1 driver, taking care of the car and doing shopping.
· Outdoor area: 2 gardeners, responsible for the gardens and trees.
· Security: 10 guards, who guard all areas of the school day and night.

The cleaning and maintaining of the school is an important part of the programme, where some of the education and the qualification of the students takes place.

Child Aid Maputo

 

LOCATION

The Child Aid project in Maputo is located 5 km outside of the capital city of Maputo. The capital city is one to which many people fled during the civil war. The city itself was not equipped at the time to handle the quantity of people that arrived looking for a safe place and an opportunity to survive. The basic infrastructure of the city still cannot support the number of people who facts occupy it and the surrounding suburbs. As a result the basic health, sanitation and environmental conditions are difficult. This is aggravated by a general shortage of water as well as little access to health and educational facilities.

 

THE FAMILY PROGRAM

During the year 1998, 3000 families participated in the project’s Family Program, in which they received lessons on how to prevent common diseases in the area, to improve and to manage their household economy and the importance of education. The project began the programme in a new area called Infulene, with 200 new participants. The mobilizers and area leaders in each area organized the annual Olympic Games, Day of Culture in which the project members participated in various games, competitions and presented cultural pieces which they had prepared. Annually, the project celebrates International Aids Day. This year over 4,000 people participated in the activities which included the handing out of condoms and plays presenting the dangers of the disease. The project works hard to ensure that all families know the dangers of the AIDS virus and how to prevent its spread.

 

 

THE SCHOOL PROGRAM

During the year 1998 a total of 15 schools participated in the many activities included in the school programme. The objective of the school activities is to ensure that the pupils understand that development and prosperity start with the people themselves. In the school programme we can see the results. The pupils are responsible for looking after their own health, they maintain the environment including their own schools by planting trees and growing vegetables and building latrines.

ADPP Child Aid also encourages women to organize themselves in clubs. In the Maputo project there are 8 Women’s Clubs. Each club has started an income generating project such as selling used clothes, making straw mats or crocheting. Each group was given a small loan by Child Aid to start up their project. All of the groups have now paid back their loans and are carrying the activities of the group using the funds they generated themselves. These groups meet every week to discuss some of the common issues affecting their lives. They select a volunteer coordinator to direct the meetings. Each group decides what they would like to discuss. They most often discuss social issues, issues which effect their children, relations within their families, or the rights of women.

There is a strong desire among many of the residents in one of the project areas, Costa do Sol, to learn how to speak, read and write Portuguese. The Child Aid mobilizers have begun to offer lessons in each village to those interested. There are now over 1,000 people participating in literacy clubs throughout the area. The participants everyday are mothers, fathers, and young people who have not had an opportunity to learn the national language and are starting now so they can not only eliminate the confusing situations of not being able to read the bus signs to know where to go or directions on the label of something they purchase, but also to develop and be able to read the local newspaper.

 

 

PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPMENT AND MAIN SPONSORS

The Child Aid project in Maputo is very well received in the communities in which it works. It is also well received and supported by the local authorities, the Ministries of Health and Education as well as Social Services. The project has received help from the World Food Programme, and receives major financial support from Humana and ADPP Mozambique.

Children's Town Maputo

 

THE PROJECT PROGRAM

The overall objective of the Children’s Town is to provide a home and an education for street children and orphans from Southern Mozambique. The children get a 7th grade and two years skills training. When leaving the project at the age of 18, the youngsters are accompanied during a year, while living with their families or starting up their own household. The Children’s Town has during 1998 cared for 80 former street children and orphans identified by the Ministry of Social Action, UNICEF and other NGOs, and 160 children from the neighbouring village.

 

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

During 1998 a total of 240 children have attended the school lessons. A pass rate of 79% was reached at the half-year exams, and the result at the final exams was 81%. The main effort has been to improve the work of teachers and various seminars and training sessions have been held in cooperation with other ADPP schools as well as the Ministry of Education. The level of participation and quality of the teaching has been improved, both through the agreement with UNICEF for school material and through "Caixa Escolar" and World Food Programme, securing meals for all students, which has a big impact on the participation. Materials for education has been donated by Transwego, a Swedish company, and by UNICEF. Funding/materials for 6 new classrooms have been agreed with the building company CMC and with the Vaal Reef Disaster Trust fund, who also sponsors 26 children.

 

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

78 students from 6-7th grade participated in the vocational training in Sewing, Metalwork, Housekeeping, Construction, Carpentry and Secretarial course. The courses take place in the afternoon, 3 hours a day. These programmes are vital for the future of the students, as most of them will start working after concluding 7th grade. The students have participated in the construction of a new dining hall and of a water tower. New programmes for the 6 courses were introduced at the beginning of the year, and new equipment purchased. Equipment and materials for the vocational training was donated by Transwego, UNICEF and CMC.

 

 

SPORTS AND CULTURE

For children in 1st to 5th grade sports and culture is a compulsory programme every afternoon. 6th and 7th grade students participate in spare time clubs in the evenings and weekends. During 1998 they learned how to play the flute and the piano, to dance Xigubo (a traditional dance), to sing in the choir, and around 20 students play in the March Orchestra. A theatre group was created and Timbila playing was introduced in 1998. The March Orchestra participate in events in the town and locally.

 

REINTEGRATION

During the year a total of 13 children have been reintegrated with their families. 3 children in the Maputo Province, 3 children in the Zambezia Province and one child in the Manica Province. 2 grown up girls have started a hairdressing course and they are now with Medicos do Mundo. 4 more children will be reintegrated in the Gaza Province in December month, one in the Sofala Province. Where geographically possible, we visit the children every 3rd month, if they are living too far away, the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Social Action is contacted and visits the children

 

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The Children’s Town is involved in issues within the community through:

· Using the experiences from the school to organize cultural activities and sports events for neighbouring schools and families.

· Creating jobs and training in small productions for the women from the poorest families. Running a school with 120 students from the poorest families in the neighbourhood.

· Involving the community structures - local leaders and the district directorates in the development of activities and the solution of difficulties.

· Cooperating with the community programmes "DAPP Child Aid" made information work about HIV/AIDS.

 

NEW INFRASTRUCTURES

Water supply completed, with two wells and a water tank, financed by the Canadian Fund. Construction of a dining hall and renovation of kitchen, materials donated by UNICEF. Furniture for 3 classrooms, donated by the South African Embassy. The basketball court completed, financed by CMC building company.

 

MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT

The Children’s Town is managed by two main bodies: the Teacher Council and Children’s Council. The Mozambican Project Manager assists the councils and has the final responsibility for fulfillment of the objectives and all administrative and financial matters.

 

THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL

2 children from each group/class are elected and participate in the weekly meetings of the Children’s Council. The Council has its own agenda put up by the children, mainly on issues regarding the boarding life, spare time activities and the allocation of the "Fund for improvement", a monthly amount for spare time equipment or decoration, monitored by the children.Cooperation with the Government and other NGOs.

The cooperation with the Ministry of Coordination of Social Action and the Network of NGO’s working with street children has been important in developing and forming the programmes in use at the cntre. The Children’s Town School is recognized under the law for private schools, and is under continuous supervision of the Ministry of Education.

 

PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPMENT AND MAIN SPONSORS

Throughout the year this area achieved a remarkable development. For instance, we managed to get sponsorships for another 26 children, and various equipment also was donated for the Children’s Town. We would like to address our gratitude to the following enterprises and institutions:

· UFF Sverige (DAPP Sweden)

· ADPP Mozambique

· World Food Programme

· UNICEF

· Telecomunicações de Moçambique

· Mocargo Transportadora

· Cervejas de Moçambique

· CMC Building Company

· Vaal Reef Disaster Trust Fund

· Other individual sponsors

Clothes Sales Maputo

 

ADPP Clothes Sales has existed since 1985, whereas this project started in 1994 with a small processing unit mainly to sell unsorted clothes in bales, as received from the donors in Europe. With the development of trade the demand for clothes shifted from big bales to smaller bales in assorted categories. Wholesalers of second hand clothes being established in Maputo. These whole salers imported 45 kg bales in assorted categories, 45 kg bales became the standard product. ADPP Clothes Sale established a sorting plant in Maputo to be able to provide the product which the market required. Along with the processing plant the sales system was developed.

The project imports second hand clothes from Humana People to People donors in Europe and purchases second hand clothes and shoes from commercial companies. The clothes are processed into 48 different categories and the shoes into 8 categories. The clothes and shoes are sold at 4 sales stations in the town. These sales stations also supply the province of Maputo. Besides supplying the sales stations in Maputo the processing units also supply the ADPP Clothes Sale Project in Gaza and Inhambane provinces. Since the start in 1994, the project grew rapidly in terms of quantity of clothes sold until 1997. The shoe sale, which started in late 1997, has mainly established itself in 1998 as a steady supplier of second hand shoes to Maputo and surrounding markets. The supply of clothes and shoes to the Maputo area has now reached to the point where the quantity covers the very basic needs.

This puts new demands on the ADPP Clothes Sale, as the competition is strong. We see this as a challenge and we do not want to fall behind, as the income is needed to run the ADPP projects. We have improved the product by training the workers to do a better job sorting and introduced even more categories. The sales people have also been trained and are currently being trained. Marketing, very active promotion and a thorough follow up with the customers is something very new in Mozambique and these skills need to be taught over a period of time. It is included in our marketing department to train our customers to become better at selling, so that they can improve their business. During 1998, ADPP Mozambique lost its import duty exemption. Now ADPP must pay a 50 % duty which puts more demands on the Clothes Sale Projects to become more efficient in order to make up for some of the lost income.

 

THE PROJECT IMPACT

The impact of the project is wide spread. First of all, the project contributes to the running costs of other ADPP projects. 120 employees have been trained. Others outside the project get jobs doing transport, handling and administrative service work. The customers have improved their business, partly through discussions with our sales people, who have visited them at their stands. Finally, the customers contribute to the development of their country by buying the clothes and shoes. This business making promotes more economic activity in the city and in the rural areas. Business also promotes inter-human relations as you need to come to a common understanding to close a deal.

 

PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPMENT AND MAIN SPONSORS

The performance of the project is very much due to the clothes donations from other Humana People to People members. The most important donors in 1998 were Humana Spain and UFF Sweden. Also Humana ASBL in Belgium and Humana Holland have contributed with clothes donations.

HOPE Beira

 

THE PROJECT IDEA AND WHO IT REACHES

HOPE-Beira aims to reduce the level of HIV infection in the Sofala Province through intensive HIV/STI prevention and are programmes. The communities are assisted to come up with their own responses to the epidemic with the aim of hanging behaviour that has a high risk element.

Hope is our program for AIDS. With clinis and soial centres and open clubs we operate for the sake of the sik and for their families and friends and for all of us that have not been caught by the consequences of this disease. AIDS is a theat to all mankind, and a global effort is needed to fight against the spred of AIDS and the work to militage its consequences. Most of the resources for AIDS prevention, medical are and research exist in and used in the rich part of the world, while over 95% of HIV infeted live in the developing nations.

Many people are dying with AIDS without knowing or acknowledging the reason they are dying. People have to recognise that HIV is real issue that can be prevented and that the infetion rate can be urbed. There is a great urgency for working with the youth of today to be the active generation in the fight against AIDS, to stop the stigma surrounding the disease, to have safe sexual behaviour, to prevent the virus spreading further. There is also a great urgency to work and are for the people who already infeted, these people will need moral and physial support not only for themselves but for thair families.

 

HIGHLIGHTS AND NEW STEPS

· Reabilitation of the unit counselor in Mafambisse.
· Expation of school program in Mafambisse.
· Traning of sex worker as peer educator.
· Recognition of the Khulupira, Association Of People Living of HIV/AIDS.

 

THE PROJECT HISTORY IN SHORT

HOPE-Beira was established in April 1998 and in October 2001 we opened the voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre. The project has created a strong community network of volunteers with different social bakgrounds working to develop new strategies to combat the AIDS epidemic in their communities. The Hope entre is well know for its counselling, information and training service and we have opened 4 counselling units in differents communities (Munhava, Manga, Matacuane and Mafambisse zone).

 

THE PROGRAM. CONTACT AND TRAINING SERVICE

This is where you can make contacts:

· Contacts with the HOPE staff for information on HIV/AIDS and other STD and problems related to these diseases.
· Contact with people who area HIV positive.
· Contact with organisations/groups/individuals who are working with HIV/AIDS.

This is were you can offer training and courses:

· Information materials such as pamphlets and posters.
· Information through the library.
· Information from trained personal.
· Information through our Hope bulletin and newsletter.

Capacity building training:

· Training of ommunity leaders in sprerheading HIV/AIDS activities, ward counselors, school manager, pastors, and NGO/CBO leaders.
· Training of trainers in peer education.
· Training of trainers in the stepping stones program.
· Training of trainers in pupils/parents relations.

Training in various skills:

· Training of peer education and leading Hope clubs.
· Training in basic counseling.
· Training in income generating activities.
· Training in HIV testing.
· Training in home based are.
· Training in advoacy and lobbying.
· Training in better life skills.

Special courses:

· Courses requested by other organisation/churches/groups.

Health Service:

· The health service aims to give quality health care to every single client.

This is where you can get quality HIV ounseling abd testing:

· Pre test basi and or psyosocial ounseling.
· Pre test psycosocial counseling.
· HIV testing.
· Counseling on infant feeding.

Consultation and treatment. This is where you can get quality:

· Phisyal health examination.
· Basi laboratory test suh as blood count and STD tests.
· Explanation on diagnosis and treatment for STD.

Positive Living Courses. This is where you can learn to live positively with HIV, through positive living courses that include:

· Sports and fitness lessons.
· Nutritional lessons.
· Cooking lessons.
· General health and hygiene lessons.
· Behavioural change lessons/discussions.
· Income generating lessons.
· Advocacy and lobbyng.

Operational Research:

· The Operational Research Program is hopes way of participating in developing knew and improved ways of stopping the spred of HIV and giving HIV/AIDS related services to people.

Pilots Project:

· Improving HIV counseling and testing facilities/availability.
· Prolonging the life of HIV positive people.
· Promoting behaviour that minimises the risk of HIV transmission.
· Targeting specific risk grouos in order to determine what effect it has on the infection rate.
· Building capacity in the communities to deal with the effects of HIV/AIDS.

Surveys:

· Surveys on behavioural change.
· Surveys on quality and quantity of service.
· Surveys on HIV prevalence.

 

OPINION FORMING ACTIVITIES ON NATIONAL LEVEL

Publication
This is where we seek to have influence on policy making by writing and publishing information materials about HIV/AIDS. About the strategies and the actions that we have found to give good results. Case stories that many people can learn from. Publication seeking support for good and progressive policies that prevent the spred of AIDS and promote care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS.

Task Force Action Groups
This is where Hope joins or creates networks, tas forces and action groups for in particle ways influence organisations and individuals to work together and thereby maximise their efforts in the fight against AIDS and in the provision of care and support for people infected or affected by HIV and AIDS.

Advocacy and Lobbying
This is where Hope joins meetings, seminars and conferences in order to advocate for more funds and resources for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and for care to people living with HIV/AIDS. Hope also seeks to influence policy makers, donors and implementors to support progressive policies that radically prevents the spread of HIV.

 

 

OUTREACH PROGRAM

School program
The headmaster participates in a seminar bout HIV/AIDS. The teachers participate in a seminar about HIV/AIDS and for the running of Hope clubs to train peer educators among the students. All student at the school are members of Hope clubs. All schools have parent/students discussions.

Action Program
The Hope action program is ongoing actions over a period of time such as implementing work place program on all work places in the operation area, training and organising a network of peer educators among the markets, bar wprkers, sex workers etc. The Hope action program is also short term action throughout the year such as stocking up all bars in the area with condoms, supplying all taxi drivers with condoms, make a poster campaign, celebration Worlds Aids Day.

Clubs
Here the Hope project promote and support the information of clubs of all kind for the infected and the affected and for the prople that wish to volunteer their services to provide service such as home base care and orphn support. Clubs for people livind with HIV, where the HIV infected can find emotional support as well as medical and nutritional advice. Clubs for youth who wish to support each other to maintain behaviour that thaso not put them at risck to become HIV positive:

· Clubs for widows.
· Clubs for people caring for orphans.
· Clubs for people who wish to provide home based care.
· Clubs for youth out of school.
· Clubs for sex workers.
· Clubs for stepping stones.
· Clubs for girls in difficult situation.
· Clubs for youth in the churches.
· Clubs for work place.

Orphan Support
Here the Hope project supports and assists groups, individuals and communities that care for orphans. Defending the human and political right of the orphan for full human development and participation in the development of society.

Facts
· Start: 1997
· No of Employees: 15
· No. of Development Instructors: 3
· No. of people involved primary (students): 100
· No. of people involved secondary (all other people benefiting): 0

The Orphan Program
We have successfully started a community orphan support programme in the pre-urban zone of Beira - Manga. It is run by our already active peer educators. To support the programme, a micro-project has been initiated; it is the production of vegetables. A small plot of land has been given by the church and the vegetables are being used for sale to support the basic expenses of the children and otherwise are being given to the children to assist in receiving a balanced diet. The project has had a successful start and vegetables are already being sold and consumed!

Girls in difficult situations and single mothers
A micro- project has been started with the single mothers and girls involved in child prostitution. The idea is for the girls and ladies to learn how to sew and embroider to make clothing items such as T-shirts with messages related to AIDS and the rights of women on them. The objective is to create a social fund for these groups to assist in their daily life while they are volunteering with ADPP Esperanca.

Working with Volunteers
We have gained a lot of experience of working with volunteers. It is a highly valuable work. We have had very positive experiences through the system of sending our best volunteers to the Frontline school in Zimbabwe to carry out the special HOPE/TCE course. It has been a very good way of mobilising our volunteers and an excellent way of educating more local people in this highly important field of work where very few have any other concrete experiences. Apart from this very large incentive we have started micro-projects with some of the youths for example making traditional chairs out of bamboo.

Other ways of supporting volunteers that have been successful is by involving them in external seminars and exchange visits. One group have recently come back from a visit to FASO in Mutare - an association supporting people living with HIV. The aim was to learn how the association is running and to learn the basic techniques in embroidery and thigh dye. The participants of the visit were from the following groups: single mothers, girls in difficult situations and people living with HIV. The experience gained has helped develop the income generating activities in the above groups and assisted greatly the positive living group.

Work with churches
Our outreach programme has carried out a lot of work with various churches. In the start it was difficult for the churches to allow our peer educators to come and work there but after many discussions and running an HIV/AIDS awareness seminar for the key priests and two youth responsible in each church, the peer educators were successful and now work with 23 churches. We also have one of our youth counselling centres in the annex of a church.

Sports School Beira

 

THE SPORTS SCHOOL IN BEIRA

ADPP Sports School in Beira got started in 1999. The buildings housing the Sports School are belonging to the Mozambican Government. ADPP received these buildings for free use during 10 years. At the beginning the buildings were in a very dilapidated state. In the meantime, the former project-leader received funds from Canada to rehabilitate these buildings and restore the plumbing system. The ADPP-Sports School is a school for underprivileged and street children. It provides primary education that adheres to the Mozambican government curriculum, while also including instruction in sports.

Along with education the kids from the streets and from families living in extreme poverty, the school also provides for a group of children who have been lef out of the education system; in Mozambique, if a child doesn´t enter school by the age of 10 years, it is too late to get into the system. ADPP children´s schools in Mozambique enrol these older children, giving opportunities to many kids who are/were too old to enter the regular primary education system.

 

THE SPORTS PROGRAM

In the sports program, the students receive theoretical and practical training. They study the rules of the game, the history of sports, fair play and health (including nutrition and injury prevention, first aid). The program includes instructions in the following sports:

· Basketball
· Soccer
· Track and Field
· Volleyball
· Handball

Each sport has a boys and girls team. The senior boys and girls basketball teams won the provincial basketball tournaments in 2000. After Lurdes Mutola has been winning gold in Australia, she visited the Sports School in Beira and talked in the presence of the Governor to our students. Our track and field team had four qualifiers (2 girls and 2 boys) for the African Youth Games held this year in Maputo. At this meet our athletes received a gold, two silvers and a bronze. There are games and races every weekend of the school year.

Having the sports program at the school is a great draw for the street children. For any school or program that includes kids from the street one of the biggest challenges is keeping the kids interested in staying. The sports keeps the kids fit and healthy and keeps them coming back day after day.