ICYE-STEP / ACAM 2018

ACAM Associação Cultural e Ambiente da Mafalala is a community based and non profit organization. Their main purpose is to have a community with of basic sanitation conditions assured and with an adequate quality of life for the human being. It also want to contribute for improving the life conditions of the less privileged groups in the community as well to increase the access of the basic needs and the environment protection of Mafalala neighbourhood. The main activities of the organization can be summed up into the areas below: -social action; -education; health; -environment; -sports (football coaching); environment (main awareness campaigns in rubbish management, cleaning activities in the local excavates of drainage and etc.); -culture and vocational trainings for youth (in carpentry, batik, tapestry and sewing) For the proposed project besides doing different activities the volunteer is needed as football coaching in which will be working with 50 children divided in 2 groups of 25 children in two periods of the day. 25 children in the morning, from 07.30 am to 10 am and from 1400 pm to 16.00 pm. Note that the training with the children only happen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Saturdays are reserved for competitions in which the volunteer should take part. The other days of the week are mainly reserved for meetings in the office but also visit other local clubs to exchange experiences. Also note that during the month of November a tournament is organized in collaboration with other neighbourhoods of Maputo in which the role of the volunteer is also important. Beside that the volunteer is also called to participate actively or guarantee the feeding of the children after the trainings and matches. Note that the volunteer will always work under the supervision of the main coach plus other coaching team.