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SWMH's current project is a community school in Inhassune, Panda District, Inhambane Province in Mozambique, 'Escola da Comunidade' (tb 'Centro da Comunidade') We opened our doors in September 2010 and now into 2013, the school hosts many of the community every week for lessons and workshops, including early years teaching - nursery and pre-schoolers, many elderly, babies, various parents and youngsters. People come to learn english and computers and share in our developing resource bank. We have built some new houses (as some of the community still have small reed huts remaining from the war.) We have a choir and are supporting the local football team and have our own junior team, (who are actually quite good!) Individuals can come to us for help in a certain area, we even offer business opportunies once a week - helping people to aspire to greater ventures, profits and see more opportunity in their developing country. |
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Provided Nursery education as well as Pre-School education, 3 days a week. Continued to feed over 20 elderly each week. Built a new store room, made room for more buildings. Provided care and assistance to the needy and rejected Ran basic and advanced English lessons on a twice weekly basis Loaned out between 10 and 20 bible players, each week. Provided healthy snacks to over 50 children, including pre-schoolers, orphans and babies Led, weekly, Baby Sing and Sign workshops Run a weekly Choir group Provided Secondary school funding to 3 students, one who graduated 10th grade. Provided shelter and straw mats to many who have been badly affected by flooding Produced various crops in the vegetable garden Trained our youth football team weekly and played matches home+away. Passed 48 students through a basic computer course Managed, accommodated and really enjoyed the skills, knowledge and assistance of 5 international volunteers. Successfully generated just shy of £6000 |
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SWMH previously ran a Pre-School in Bilene, Mozambique. It managed to educate over 50 pre-schoolers and improved their chances of success at primary school significantly. It was fully supported by the local Catholic church and although it is closed at present, a previous teacher runs private pre-schooling from her home. SWMH hopes to run an outreach program, providing educational workshops to those living in remote places in the province of Inhambane, using an old caravan as the moving resource centre! |
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It is expected that by 2014: - We would have doubled the registration into all lessons from 2012.
- We will be fully registered by the Mozambican government as a working charity in their country.
- We will be sponsoring more than 5 children a place at secondary school.
- More than 80 people would have completed their basic computer course.
- More than 100 people would have improved their english language.
- The local primary school would have improved on their work with the help of the community school.
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Adult literacy classes in Mozambique are almost non existent, yet nearly 80% of females and 60% of males are illiterate. (EFA 2000) 13% of the population in Mozambique have HIV/AIDS. That’s roughly 2million people, including 140,000 children. (World Bank data 2008) Roughly 3/4s of the Mozambican population have a lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. (UNICEF 2006) The Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique, establishes education as a right and a duty of every citizen. This should translate into equal opportunities of access for all citizens to the various types and levels of education. In the framework of the law, the State allows other entities, including community, co-operative, business and private bodies, to participate in education. |
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