📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
AJUDE (Associação Juvenil Para o Desenvolvimento do Voluntariado em Moçambique) is a non-profit organization which brings together young Mozambicans without distinction to race, sex, religion, tribe, level of education or any other way of discrimination. The idea of creating AJUDE dates back to 1993.
Our main objectives are: a) to promote volunteer activities for young people in their spare time and holidays; b) to promote community development and encourage participation of community members in activities for their own benefit; c) To promote volunteer activities for young people in their spare time and holidays; d) to promote community development and encourage participation of community members in activities for their own benefit; e) to promote exchange of youth volunteers in the different regions of Mozambique, of Africa and the rest of the world; f) to send young Mozambican volunteers to participate in voluntary work in other countries; g) to create opportunities to exchange experiences between youth from different parts of the country and the rest of the world; h) to assist with community development; I) to promote international understanding through voluntary services; j) to enable young people to encounter and understand different cultures; k) to encourage the concept of voluntary services as a force in search for peace equality, democracy and international understanding; l) to provide opportunities for the people of Mozambique to become aware of international issues.
Our activities goes to a) Cultural Youth Exchange; b) Human Rights; c)Rural Development; d) Gender Equality; e) Emergency and Natural Desaster Relief; f) HIV/AIDS e g) Environment and Sustainable Development trough several programs short, medium and long-term like ICYE (International Cultural Youth Exchange); Canada World Youth, both North-South and South-South; Workcamps and Weltwärts.
We are member and partner with a) CWY – Canada World Youth; b) Volunteer Centre of South Africa; c) ICYE – International Culture Youth Exchange; d) Botswana Workcamp Association; e) Zimbabwe Workcamp Association; f) SCI – Service Civil International; g) Mozambique National Youth Council; h) LINK – Mozambique NGO’s Forum; i) CCIVS; j) SAYM – Southern Africa Youth Movement; k) SAWC – Southern Africa Workcamp Co-operation; l)Mozambique Volunteering Committee.
💼 What the programme involves
With the assistance of the department of National Parks the Volunteers will try and preserve local trees which are in considered in danger species and find out how many people still living in the Park. The volunteers will have the opportunity to take part in the process of reconstruction of the park
🏠 Accommodation on site
Huts or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.
📍 About the location
Gorogosa Park is located in Sofala Province in the center of Mozambique, about 1000 km away from the capital city of Mozambique (Maputo). Gorongoza National Park extends over the bracetygia-covered plains north of Beira Corridor to the south-eastern base of mount Gorongoza. Formerly regarded as one of the southern Africa’s finest wild life reserves, attracting over 12,000 visitors a year, with more game than the much larger Kruger National Park in South Africa, the area became central battleground during the Civil war ended in 1992. Since the war ended a lot of work has been done to reopen the park to visitors. Landmine have been lifted, bridges repaired and lodges rebuilt.
ℹ️ Additional information
1 - The volunteer should arrive two days prior to the start of the workcamp project. In case not, it should be communicated to the organizers;
2 - Any change or emergency the organizer should be communicated beforehead useing organizers contact.
3 - Participation fee is paid on the arrival and prior to departure to the camp,
4 - All the volunteer should arrive to the Maputo International Airport