📝 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
The volunteers will be carrying out various environmental tasks inside the natural reserve in collaboration with the Department of the Areas of Conservation of the Minister of Tourism, and environment education as well as take part in the community organized activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Huts or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering.
📍 About the location
The Maputo Natural Reserve, with 1040 km² of area (locally known as Reserva Especial de Maputo) is located in the southernmost part of Mozambique, 79 km south of Maputo Province, on the Inhaca Peninsula. It encompasses the area from the Indian Ocean on the eastern boundary to the Rio Maputo on the western edge. The Maputo reserve is part of the Lubombos Tran frontier park, which links the Maputo Elephant Reserve in Mozambique through the Futi Corridor and the Lubombo Conservancy in Swaziland to the Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa, creating the first major elephant stronghold along Africa's eastern coastline.
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