What we do
- primary health care
- primary education and early childhood education
- children’s vulnerability to abuse and disasters
- social and economic capacities.
Primary health care
This programme helps to improve access to primary health care – from supporting the construction of health centres to opening boreholes in villages and providing safe drinking water.
Primary education and early childhood education
Plan Mozambique works on a number of initiatives to improve access to, and the quality of, primary education and early childhood education. We promote and support birth registration campaigns, which provide children with the vital documents they need to access social services, such as education and health care. Since October 2007, a pilot birth registration project benefited a total of 37,000 children from Jangamo and Maxixe districts.
This programme also supports the construction of schools, including classrooms, offices, latrines and teacher houses. Furniture and materials are also provided.
Children’s vulnerability to abuse and disasters
This programme creates child-friendly spaces and environments to reduce children’s vulnerability to abuse and disasters.
We work with the government and civil society to build capacity on child rights and protection. As a result of Plan advocacy and capacity building a provincial child protection network is being set up in Inhambane, led by the Directorate of Woman and Social Action.
Plan Mozambique has also launched the Learn Without Fear campaign in Inhambane province, which aims to end violence against children in schools. The campaign has received great support from the provincial directorates of education and woman and social action.
Social and economic capacities
We work to improve the social and economic capacity of households so that they can become more resilient to shocks – such as the loss of a job, death of a family member or natural disaster – and plan for the future.
Through this programme we have implemented 2 chicken raising projects in Magaisa and Jogo communities, which are benefiting 47 families.
The Child Savings (Aflatoun) project, which has been launched in 9 schools in partnership with Wona Sanana and Child Savings International, is expected to see 1,500 children actively participate in and benefit from the project.
A pilot early child development project is also being launched in 3 communities (Ligogo, Licaca and Ravene) in partnership with Child Savings International.
