About

Fundação Nosso do Amãnha is a Non-profit and non-Governmental Organisation, founded and created in 2022 by Arlina Daniel Massuanganhe, as a way of responding to the fight against absenteeism and school dropout.

Their mission is to support children and adolescents in need through charitable and educational actions.

Their main objectives are:

• To develop School Support Programmes for children and adolescents;
• To finance scholarships for teenagers and young people in various training and vocational areas and
• To develop awareness raising activities on health for children, adolescents and families in vulnerable situations.

Their activities are directed and target to all disadvantaged children and adolescents, both girls and boys aged between 6 to 18 years old. They promote school retention, literacy and health. Regular activities include:

• Literacy that includes reading, writing and calculation;
• School reinforcement classes, including playful activities to ensure the habit of enjoying reading and writing;
• Extracurricular and/or outdoor Activities like light martial arts (karate) and Music literacy (guitar, piano, etc);
• Psychosocial support for children, adolescents and families;
• Propose social policies and projects to promote social well-being at the individual level.

Location

The project is located in Bairro 25 de Junho, well known as Choupal, one of safest areas of Maputo. Also the placement is located in an area where the host coordinating organisation has a considerable number of host families, so the volunteers might not need transport to go from the place they are staying to the project. The neighbourhood also offers easy access to local transport to any area of Maputo.

Accommodation

With a Mozambican host family

Volunteer Tasks

The project offers a range of activities for the volunteers. The volunteers can work in one or several areas based on the skills, interests and passion they might have. The working schedule can be drafted weekly under the supervision of the working supervisor and other volunteers or social workers considering relevant for the accomplishment of the main goal of the week. Activities can include e.g.:

• Assist with teaching, mainly extracurricular or outdoor activities like sports, music, languages, manual skills (crafts, painting, sewing and and other vocational art);
• Support children with their school homework especially in reading, writing and calculation;
• If qualified or willing to assist the other staff member, the volunteers could be called to provide psychosocial support to children, adolescents and vulnerable families;
• Support the organisation in visibility, marketing and fundraising activities and campaigns, in case some expertise exist;
• Assist with local and regional events on behalf of the organisation;

Volunteer Requirements

• Be passionate to communicate no matter the language but open to learn Portuguese;
• Have manual and/or soft skills (painting, drawing, crafting skills, organize, prepare and run workshops, music, martial arts, cooking, etc);
• Be passionate about community work;
• Be open to learn and to share personal experience;
• Be active and creative;
• Show interest in learning about the social and community context.

Child Protection

Please note that you will be required to sign ICYE’s policy Care to Engage on Safeguarding Children