📝 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 at Tofo beach as well as cultural activities in Inhambane city. They will also take part on the environmental education programmes in the Ponta de Barra area close to Inhambane.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.
📍 About the location
Inhambane Province is located in the South of Mozambique, about 420 kms from capital city Mozambique (Maputo). The capital of Inhambane Province lies on a natural formed by a deep inlet at the mouth of the small Matumba River. Inhambane it’s the oldest extant settlement between Maputo and Beira. By the end of the 16 century it had been incorporated into Portuguese East Africa monopoly and had become a regular port of call for Portugues ivory-trade ships. Roughly 400 slaves were exported from Inhambane in 1762, a number that had quadruped by the end of that decade while ivory export figures steadily sank. One of the leisure activities in Tofo could be diving.
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