MOZ 15 - LAR MANGUNDE SUPPORT
Project Location
The project takes place in the Mangunde mission, a rural region belonging to the Chibabava district, Sofala province. In Mangunde, most of the adult population is illiterate and young people often emigrate to South Africa in search of work and business.
According to the 2017 population census, the Chibabava district has a total of 135,202 inhabitants and a surface area of approximately 6,977 km2, with a young population (43% under 15), mostly female, and essentially rural. The Mangunde mission is located here, which after being rebuilt in 1995 offers young people the opportunity to study thanks to the presence of a school and a male and female lar. Of the approximately 1,381 students expected by the mission, 43% are girls who come from areas where there are no schools and 35% of these live in the lar, having no families in the area and not being able to pay rent.
The Mangunde region is very poor, people live on subsistence agriculture, there are no possibilities of having a steady job due to the lack of factories and any public structure. The only employees are the schoolteachers and the staff who work in the health center. The access roads are very precarious, during the rains the transit is very difficult, the local market is very poor, the internet networks very precarious.
Project description
In Mangunde there is a school that goes from elementary to twelfth grade, an agricultural institute and a Lar that currently welcomes 119 girls. The annual fee is very low precisely in order to facilitate access to school, and for this reason it is not enough to support the costs of food, hygiene products and various materials for the proper functioning of the lar.
In addition, in order to increase the level of learning of young girls, also intervening with remedial courses where there is a need (especially for those girls who have attended primary school in rural areas), there is a need to equip the lar with school books.
The lar supports an integral formation with meetings on human formation, hygiene, moral education, rights and duties of women in culture and in the world. This formation is given by the sister in charge of the lar. We think it is appropriate to give girls the opportunity to have moments of leisure and / or sport for a healthy intellectual and physical balance.
Objectives
- Support the girls who are welcomed in our Lar so that they can build a better future for themselves and their families
- Improving girls' nutrition and meet their basic needs
- Offering an integral human formation
Local participation
The girls collaborate by keeping the lar clean, (dormitories, refectory, kitchen and garden), they take care of searching the forest for the firewood needed for cooking, they have a small garden with vegetables, and they produce biscuits that they sell to earn something to cover their expenses.
Beneficiaries
Direct: 119 girls of the lar
Indirect: families and society
Referent sister for the project: Sr. Harriet Draru
Project's costs