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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Empowerment Through Savings: How Financial Groups Are Transforming Lives in Northern Mozambique

Community members in rural Mozambique where financial services demanding formalities that members hardly meet to acquire loans to fund their business among others, create Financial Saving Groups, forms of small funds with small interests where they are the first and ultimate beneficiaries.

Mobile courts in action

Mobile Justice for Children initiative launched in Mozambique

Mobile state courts have been launched in northern Mozambique with the support of World Vision, to help improve access to justice for underprivileged girls...

Three-year-old Felismina in Mozambique with her great-aunt Elisa.

Proper feeding restores child well-being in Mozambique

Three-year-old Felismina is no different to other children in her village in Mozambique who enjoy playing in the open fields, making toys with sticks and...

Communities in Mocuba lauded for making positive strives in combatting early marriage

Mocuba communities lauded for efforts to combat early marriage

Whilst visiting the Zambezia Province this week, Deputies from the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, and Goodwill Ambassadors of World Vision were...

Dercio Chimoio showing running water from the system

Small community water system spares children from hard journey in Tulua

In partnership with the local Government, World Vision, under the “Educating Children Together – Phase III” (ECT-3) project, upgraded a borehole in 14-year...

Early marriage

Maria escapes child marriage and returns to school

A year after COVID-19 broke out and schools were closed to prevent the spread of the disease, many girls in Tete still bear the marks of the impact of the...

Luisa from Mozambique

Business mentorship provides financial independence to Luisa after Idai

Luisa's stall is one of the most popular among the customers in Masqul-Alto resettlement centres in the district of Búzi, central Mozambique. This is not...

Provision of hygiene materials allow children to return safely to school

World Vision's COVID-19 response reaching 144,000 people in Gaza, Mozambique

More than 144,000 people have benefited from various interventions aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19 in the southern province of Gaza, in Mozambique...

Joana is preparing porridge on cornflour basis

Increasing access to food for survivors of Cyclone Idai through farm inputs

For Joana (15), her mother Ofélia (53), and her two brothers, the right to breakfast had been suspended by the devastating Cyclone Idai, which had stripped...

Cabo Delgado conflict

Displaced from Cabo Delgado: Young girls sexually exploited

Survivors from the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, are being forced into harmful coping mechanisms to survive hunger. In the neighbouring...

Laurinda & Jorge sitting under a passion fruit tree in front of their small hut

School materials restore children's dreams in cyclone and COVID-19 affected areas in Mozambique

Anyone looking at the beautiful smiles of 10-year-old Laurinda and nine-year-old Jorge could never imagine that these children had their dreams threatened...

David is showing how he fetch water from the water point with a ramp that allows him to reach the crank through wheelchair

Ensuring access to clean water for people with disabilities through inclusive water initiatives

To meet David's needs and those of 220 other households of Madibunhana community, World Vision has rehabilitated and modernised the nearby borehole...

Anguista is holding her five months-old twins after receiving her non-food items kit

Restoring dignity to survivors of Tropical Storm Chalane through essential non-food items

After Tropical Storm Chalane made landfall, World Vision carried out a rapid assessment, taking to the community to respond to the needs of the most...

Amélia is showing the havocs that floods caused on her crops

Reinventing oneself to deal with the damage imposed by Cyclone Eloise

The three and a half hectares of rice, maize, peanuts and cassava owned by Amélia Chacama (56) in Búzi district, were washed away by the intense floods...

Maneca´s rice plantations are still submerged more than two weeks later after Eloise

Hunger is threatening the survivors of Cyclone Eloise in Mozambique

In Buzi district, in the central province of Sofala in Mozambique, farmers such as Maneca (48) are still counting the losses caused by Cyclone Eloise that...

Elsa is pointing out the wreckage of her house after cyclone Eloise make a landfall

Cyclone Eloise and COVID-19: Where do we go now?

On the day that Tropical Cyclone Eloise hit, the roof of Deocina's house was swept away and the walls fell. This forced Deocina and her children to seek...

Augusto is showing a proper handwashing style thought by World Vision

Restoring hope through teachings to limit the spread of COVID-19

In Búzi, the district of the Mozambican province of Sofala most devastated by the floods that followed Cyclone Idai, Augusto (10) and his brothers and...

Restoring normalcy to children's lives after Tropical Cyclone Eloise

Restoring normalcy to children's lives after Tropical Cyclone Eloise

Three days after the passage of Tropical Cyclone Eloise through Zambezia province, several children affected by the phenomenon in Quelimane, the province's...

Isabel taking care of her crops

Helping survivors of Cyclone Idai to reinvent themselves to face COVID-19

The past two years have been very challenging for 53-year-old widow, Isabel, and her family of 10. Having lost everything she owned during Cyclone Idai...

Amélia is washing the crockery

Impact of COVID-19: Amélia's plight to provide for her child is worsened by the pandemic

Orphaned as a child, 17-year old Amélia prematurely left school to get married as a strategy to try and escape poverty. Things however became more...

Mozambique Telma Nampula

The state of emergency drags girls to early pregnancy in Nampula

Since March, World Vision has registered 35 pregnant teenagers; ranging in age between 12 and 17 years old in Kazuzo. Girls like 14-year-old Telma are...

Mozambique Joana

Early pregnancy adds suffering to already distressed Joana due to COVID-19

Joana, 15, used to dream of becoming a teacher. But after schools were closed in March, she quickly became pregnant by her 23-year-old boyfriend, Chifuniro...

Nicolau receiving his food

“Coronavirus came to make my life worse” - Nicolau's struggles on top of cyclone devastation and disability

Nicolau, a handicapped and unemployed father of five who survived a car accident in 2017 that resulted in the amputation of his left leg, shares his...

Raimundo weaving the basket

Helping families recover from cyclone devastation through 'Food for Assets' in the wake of COVID-19

Blind from a very young age, 35-year-old Raimundo Mariano is a subsistent community farmer who sells baskets to feed his two wives and seven children...

Maria is caring a orange seedling she received from World Vision

Relieving Cyclone Idai survivors with provisions in the wake of COVID-19

While still trying to recover from the impact of Cyclone Idai, Maria Luisa, a mother of 12, has had to learn to deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic...