WORKCAMPS IN MOZAMBIQUE

In 2008 OIKOS organises in collaboration with AJUDE (Associaçao Juvenil Para o Desenvolvimento do Voluntariado em Moçambique), a local non-profit organisation, several workcamps in Mozambique.

The fee of participation (including the annual membership-card of OIKOS) is 100,00 Euro and has to be paid when applying for a camp. 
The camp-fee (including board and lodging) is 210 US$ and has to be paid to the camp-coordinator on arrival in Mozambique.

What is AJUDE?

AJUDE (Associação Juvenil Para o Desenvolvimento do Voluntariado em Moçambique) is a non-profit organization which brings together young Mozambicans without distinction to race, sex, religion, tribe, level of education or any other way of discrimination. The idea of creating AJUDE dates back to 1993.

Aims and objectives of AJUDE

• To promote volunteer activities for young people in their spare time and holidays;

• To promote community development and encourage participation of community members in activities for their own benefit;

• To promote exchange of youth volunteers in the different regions of Mozambique, of Africa and the rest of the world;

• To send young Mozambican volunteers to participate in voluntary work in other countries;

• To create opportunities to exchange experiences between youth from different parts of the country and the rest of the world;

• To assist with community development;

• To promote international understanding through voluntary services;

• To enable young people to encounter and understand different cultures;

• To encourage the concept of voluntary services as a force in search for peace equality, democracy and international understanding;

• To provide opportunities for the people of Mozambique to become aware of international issues.

Work: In cooperation with local Municipality the volunteers will do different communities activities as well as carrying out various environmental tasks and cultural activities with the local community.

Location: Manhiça District is located about 80 km away from Maputo, Mozambique Capital City. One of its beauty is on the plantations sugar cane (with two factories: Maragra and Xinavane) and bananas that supplies Maputo and all the southern part of Mozambique.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

Work: The volunteers will be carrying out various environmental tasks at Zalala beach as well as take part in the community organized activities.

Location: 27 kms away from Quelimane, the capital of Zambezia Province. Zambezia is located in the center part of Mozambique, about 1665 kms from capital Maputo. Quelimane is Mozambique fourth-largest town with a population of roughly 140,000. This city was almost founded by Muslim traders. The first Portuguese trading factory at Quelimane was established in 1530 and the town appears on Portuguese maps dating from 1560. The surfaced road from Quelimane to Zalala passes through one of the most extensive coco-nut palm plantation in Africa, and the wide sandy beach offers good swimming and surface.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self Catering.

Work: The volunteer will carry out environmental activities together in collaboration with the department of environment. 

Location: Xai-Xai is the name of the capital of Gaza province and is also of a popular beach resort out of town 10km. on the north bank of Limpopo, Xai-Xai was founded in early 20^th century as a satellite port to Lourenço Marques and to service local towns. Being so close to the banks of Limpopo River, xai-xai was hit very hard by the floods in 2000.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE04

25.07.2008 - 08.08.2008

Chimanimani

Work: Volunteer will help to build small path along the mountain in order to prevent erosion as well as helping the administration of the nature conservation area to register the number of people living in the reserve.

Location: Chimanimani is located at the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique about 250 km from Chimoio, the capital of Manica Province. Chimoio is the fifth largest city and is the archetypal small southern Africa town.

Accommodation: In huts or tents provided by the local authorities, self catering and so showers.

AJUDE05

25.07.2008 - 08.08.2008

Parque Nacional de Gorongoza

Work: With the assistance of the department of National Parks the Volunteers will try and preserve local trees which are in considered in danger species and find out how many people still living in the Park. The volunteers will have the opportunity to take part in the process of reconstruction of the park

Location: Gorogosa Park is located in Sofala Province in the center of Mozambique, about 1000 km away from the capital city of Mozambique (Maputo). Gorongoza National Park extends over the bracetygia-covered plains north of Beira Corridor to the south-eastern base of mount Gorongoza. Formerly regarded as one of the southern Africa’s finest wild life reserves, attracting over 12,000 visitors a year, with more game than the much larger Kruger National Park in South Africa, the area became central battleground during the Civil war ended in 1992. Since the war ended a lot of work has been done to reopen the park to visitors. Landmine have been lifted, bridges repaired and lodges rebuilt.

Accommodation: Huts or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE06

15.08.2008 - 30.08.2008

Chimoio

Work: In cooperation with local Municipality the volunteers will do different communities activities as well as carrying out various environmental tasks and take part in the local community activities.

Location: Chimoio is located about 1100km from Maputo and 460 km from Harare

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE07

15.08.2008 - 30.08.2008

Praia do Tofo

Work: The volunteers will be carrying out various environmental tasks at Tofo beach as well as cultural activities in Inhambane city. They will also take part on the environmental education programmes in the Ponta de Barra area close to Inhambane.

Location: Inhambane Province is located in the South of Mozambique, about 420 kms from capital city Mozambique (Maputo). The capital of Inhambane Province lies on a natural formed by a deep inlet at the mouth of the small Matumba River. Inhambane it’s the oldest extant settlement between Maputo and Beira. By the end of the 16 century it had been incorporated into Portuguese East Africa monopoly and had become a regular port of call for Portugues ivory-trade ships. Roughly 400 slaves were exported from Inhambane in 1762, a number that had quadruped by the end of that decade while ivory export fugures steadily sank.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE08

05.09.2008 - 20.09.2008

Praia do Belene

Work: The work will consist mainly on carry out many environmental activities (mainly tree plantation along the beach) in collaboration with the local authorities.

Location: Bilene village is located about 180 km away from Maputo and 60 km from Xai-xai, the capital of Gaza province. It’s a small village very well known due to its beautiful lago on and easy access to the ocean.  Bilene is considered one of the most developed beaches in the country.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering

AJUDE09

14.09.2008 - 29.09.2008

Parque Nacional de Bazaruto

Work: With the assistance of the department of Conservation areas of the Tourism Minister the Volunteers will try and preserve local and natural ecosystem as well as working in collaboration with the provincial government to resettling 6,500 of the 20,000 people living within the park boundaries. The volunteers will have the opportunity to take part in the process of reconstruction of the park especially in the process of removing 16 km of fencing on the east side of the park and also promoting environmental education, responsible tourism and sustainable development.

Location: The Limpopo National Park is located in Gaza Province in the southern part of Mozambique, about 200 km away from the capital city of Mozambique (Maputo).  The Limpopo National Park is part of the Greater Limpopo Cross frontier Park, established late in 2002, that also includes the Kruger National Park, in South Africa, and the Gonarezhou Park, in Zimbabwe. The ambitious trans-national project has the main objective of creating an eco-tourism and forestry and wild life conservation area, covering about 4.4 million hectares. Its wildlife makes it more attractive for tourism and activities related to it.

Accommodation: Huts or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE10

14.09.2008 - 29.09.2008

Parque Nacional do Limpopo

Work: With the assistance the Department of Conservation areas of the department of National Parks the Volunteers will try and preserve local fauna and flora of species considered in danger by active environmental education, responsible tourism as well as promoting sustainable development. The volunteers will have the opportunity to take part in the local community activities.

Location: Bazaruto National Park is located in the Bazaruto Archipelago (constituted by Bazaruto, Banguera and Magaruque Islands), Northern part of Inhambane Province in the south of Mozambique, about 700 km away from the capital city of Mozambique (Maputo). It is considered an ideal spot to relax and enjoy the sea and landscape, its natural surroundings (fauna and flora). The sunset here is an amazing thing to see.

Accommodation: Huts or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE11

10.01.2009 - 25.01.2009

Praia da Catembe

Work: In cooperation with local Municipality the volunteers will do tree planting work along the beach and other different communities activities as well as carrying out various environmental tasks.

Location: Maputo lies within 100km of the South Africa and Swaziland borders an in addition to being the national capital of Mozambique its also capital of the country’s smallest, most densely populated and most southerly province. Separated by 1km wide stretch of water Catembe is Maputo’s curiously downbeat twin is an reached by ten minute ferry ride.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

AJUDE12

10.01.2009 - 25.01.2009

Ilha de Moçambique

Work: The participant will live and work together with the local volunteer and help in renovating the Local Hospital has well as painting the local Museum and the Fort of the Island.

Location: Ilha de Mozambique is located about 200 km east of Nampula city, the capital. Declared a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site in 1992 is linked to the mainland by 1.5 km long single lane causeway, the crescent shaped island measures a mere 2.5km from north to south and is at no point more than 600m wide. Despite of its small size the island support a population of roughly 7000 and as the most important Portuguese settlement on the East African coast for the best part of the centuries, it boast several of the oldest extant colonial buildings in the southern hemisphere.

Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering.

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