In January 2021 we located an old Portuguese walled property with substantial land, one main house plus two derelict houses surrounded by wonderful mature trees and shrubs. It had once been a very loving family home but now in disrepair.
We have rented this site for six months. One family has moved on to it already and the vision is to make a wonderful future base for the work of HiM. A portion of the land would make a wonderful plant nursery which would make a family self-sufficient. Others could work from there too with accommodation to run small businesses and a safe place to store materials. In another part of the ground, we could have chickens and Ducks for food and eggs. Our Mozambican Team leader, Sam could also use the site to teach English in one of the houses when cleared. In the future, it may even be possible to use the site to build a school for those who can’t afford fees or school uniforms.
This such an exciting development and full of possibilities and we are all very excited at the huge possibilities of this Terra
BICYCLES IN RURAL AREAS ( Bicicetas )
Hope in Mozambique has enabled 12 children from a very rural area to attend school, ages range from 6 years to 13, most never have the opportunity due to poverty. As well as paying school fees and uniforms, shoes and schoolbooks and bags, we would like to buy bikes for them to attend daily school, they walk one and half hours to school and back each day. Bikes would make such a difference to their lives and that of their families.
PAST PROJECTS
Past HiM Projects have been both supportive and helpful to the community and we continue to make this very much part of our future in Mozambique, working into the very poorest of regions a few miles from Matola Rio where Sam our project Manager lives.
Children in this region are not able to have an education due to their families not having money to pay for the very basic necessities of life let alone for the purchase of uniforms, books, and fees.
We have partnered with families by supplying rice and beans plus helping to repair their basic homes by covering the floors of their reed homes with cement which stops flooding in the rainy season; eventually replacing the reed walls with concrete blocks.
Over half the population does not have access to clean water or sanitation 17 % of children under five die because of poor water and sanitation. HiM seeks to ensure that for at least some this is not their inevitable future.
Since arriving in Mozambique in 2003 nine small boys very soon became part of George & Jill’s family, and now in 2021 they are still very important, some now with families of their own resulting in HiM supporting several generations, helping to support these extended families with food, medicines, and hospital fees. With this support, young people are given hope and a future that would otherwise be denied them.
Over these years Education has been very important to these young men’s lives and with support from HiM at least one young man has been helped through University, his brother was also enabled to go to college where he is studying to become an electrician. Education is so important; without education, the endless cycle of poverty continues unbroken. Through support from HiM hope is given to a small number of young people who otherwise would have been denied a future.
Five parcels of land have been bought by HiM and three houses occupied with our young families. Two more are near completion. Such houses give a secure home from which to learn and work and become self-sufficient.