📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
AJOV MOZAMBIQUE
💼 What the programme involves
Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture;
Working with Community;
Work with local farmers, to develop social & community work.
Also create recreation activities such as game, song, intercultural exchange together.
Farming work – growing and eating what we grow. The idea of a green homestay to have clean and safe food.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Stay in the house and tent. Share one big room together, separate male and female. You will take turn to cook. There is wifi available.
📍 About the location
This work camp, to be carried out in Maputo Province, specifically in Ponta do Ouro Village, focuses on promoting environmental education among local communities, especially children, teens and youngs. The initiative arises from the need to strengthen ecological awareness in a context marked by challenges such as inadequate waste management, ecosystem degradation, and increasing climate vulnerability. Through practical, educational, and participatory activities, the project aims to encourage sustainable behaviors, enhance the region's natural resources, and reinforce the community's role in environmental preservation.
The project will focus on participatory and gender-inclusive planning during the fieldwork. About fifteen to twenty volunteers will join in the learning. In the execution of the project, men and women will have the capacity to produce beds, prepare and work the land through techniques used in Agriculture.
Visit Maputo Reserve;
- Go to Ponta de Ouro Beach;
- Go to Katembe Beach;
- Go to Macaneta Beach;
- Go to Maputo museums;
- Visit Maputo City.
ℹ️ Additional information
Ponto de Ouro
Ponta de Ouro is a coastal tourist locality located in the south of Mozambique, in the Maputo province, Matutuíne district, very close to the border with South Africa. It is famous for its white sandy beaches, clear waters, and strong waves, highly sought after for leisure and water sports. Despite tourism, it maintains an active local community, with markets, accommodations, restaurants, and small tourist resorts.
WHAT TO BRING
Farming working clothes.
Medicine as necessary
Mosquito repellent
Your traditional music, costumes, food and drink for the intercultural night (cooking and performance)
Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce about your country and culture).
Sunglasses and sun-block cream
Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village)
Any interesting materials such as CDs, ideas for games/activities for students.
Motivation, good humor, and communication skills
Raincoat (sometimes there will be rain.)