MOZ 21 - A SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR LAR ELDA
Project Location
The Lar Elda Reception Center was opened by the Comboni Missionary Sisters in 2003 on the outskirts of Nampula, in the Muahivire Expancao neighborhood, to respond to the great challenge of being able to help girls and young women, especially orphans, who lived on the streets; later, at the request of government social services, they began to welcome girls who, for various reasons such as poverty, exploitation or abuse, could not remain with their families.
In the Makua culture, children do not enjoy much protection when their mother dies and so they are often entrusted to a relative or left to themselves. Among the girls we often encounter problems of exploitation in the sense that all the housework is entrusted to them, they are not sent to school and, what is worse, many of them are sexually abused.
Currently, the center welcomes 54 guests, including girls and young women; some of them arrived when they were little and have now grown up, thus becoming responsible for various services and helping in the care of the youngest.
Project description
Since the last elections, held in October 2024, the climate in Nampula and in the rest of the country is becoming increasingly tense, in a succession of demonstrations, clashes and increasingly violent protests. In order to guarantee greater security to the home of the Sisters and the Lar Elda Reception Center which are located in the same compound, they would like to build a fence wall to protect the girls and young women and the sisters themselves.
Objective
- Creating a safer and more private environment for girls, young women and sisters.
Beneficiaries
Direct: 54 girls, adolescents and young people living in Lar
Indirect: Family members and local population
Referent sister of the project: sr Maria Jose Lopes da Cunha
Project's costs