MOZAMBIQUE

After years of civil war, Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. Fortunately, it has experienced a slight upturn in recent years. Nevertheless, the social situation in the country is very precarious, especially for children and elderly people. In Mozambique, the HIV rate is very high, which is why the number of orphans is constantly increasing. Child labour, abuse, forced marriages and military service are big problems for them. The educational situation is also improving only slowly.
More than half of the women in Mozambique are illiterate.

 
What gives us HOPE – in Mozambique


HOPE – Mozambique is a country with a lot of potential: it is a fertile land, rich in water, rich in flora, fauna and minerals. A country that has experienced two wars and has been destroyed, which is recovering economically, politically and structurally, and which is also expressing itself in the areas of religion and culture. 

 
  • Hope – Mozambique has a strong, courageous people with an irrepressible will to work, to build a dignified life for all people and for the common good.
  • A people with many open wounds and many challenges. Nevertheless, the people like to celebrate and are cheerful.
  • A people thirsting for God, truth and beauty and sensitive to all that is sacred.
  • A people who, despite crises, natural disasters, human rights violations and a desolate health and education infrastructure, continue to hold their heads high and open their hearts to life and hope.
  • A people with a tremendous capacity for resilience, and a growing awareness and capacity for action in addressing social problems.
  • Hope –The women of this country are powerful and capable. They are courageous and carry the world and great responsibility in their minds and hearts. They are women who manage to unite, form groups and set up joint survival projects. They are becoming more and more involved in education, culture, health, politics and business.
  • Hope –The Church is committed to the defence of life, faith and hope. Women are strongly represented in the church, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
  • Hope – People are ready to help each other to reach new horizons. And although they often bear traces of suffering, they are full of dreams and personal and common projects.
  • We hope and trust in all this and in the verses of
    II Corinthians 4:7-10!

Sr. Ines Centenaro SDS

 
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MANICA Center of Alternative Health


The Centro Salvatoriano de Saúde Alternativa, the Salvatorian Centre for Alternative Health, is located in Messica, 55 kilometres from the town of Chimoio. Here, health is not only understood as the absence of illness, but rather as the interaction of body, mind and soul. This holistic concept enables the sisters and staff at the centre to work with people/patients on various levels.

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CHIMOIO Scholarships and support for cultural programs



The Salvatorian Sisters' Mwana Unerufaro School in Chimoio was founded in 2002 to provide an appropriate education, especially for the large number of poor children, to teach them to read and write and to enable them to lead a more humane and self-determined life. Our educational mission includes pre-school and primary school education within the framework of the Mozambican curriculum, educational needs and social measures.

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