Mozambique Volunteer Relief Work
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The Mozambique Community and Soccer Development Programme involves various aspects of community development work and soccer coaching projects in and around the coastal town of Vilanculos.
We support a number of different community development initiatives and this project will allow you insights into various facets of life of underprivileged individuals in this area of Mozambique and the chance to relieve some of the pressures of their every day lives.
March-July of 2007 will see our programme with an intensified focus on Cyclone Favio relief work.
We sent through a group of volunteers to assist with the aid and relief work in Mozambique's coastal village of Vilanculos in the first week of March 2007. Cyclone Favio caused havoc in late February when it hit the coastal area in and around Vilanculos where our community and soccer development project is based. We contacted all of our current volunteers on our Zimbabwe and Zambia projects and put forward the option to join us on a subsidised relief expedition.
When the group returned to Zimbabwe on the 15 March they all shared an overwhelming sense of having had a very unique and moving experience. Whilst their trip was trying at times, e.g. not all the usual day-to-day supplies being available in Vilanculos, etc, I feel that they were very humbled by their time on the relief trip and that they came away feeling that they had made a significant difference.
Below are some of the pictures from the trip. We will still be involved in relief work over the next few months as it will take a lot of time and effort before the surrounding area is restored to some semblance of normality. Please note that any volunteers who are able to join us before the end of May 2007 will be welcomed at a subsidised fee. The price has been set at GBP850 or US$1600 per person for one month on the programme until the end of May. Flights from Johannesburg direct to Vilanculos are functioning normally so there is easy access to Vilanculos and our project managers will meet you on arrival.
Read more about the Mozambique volunteer work projects and expeditions.
Photos from the volunteer trip to Mozambique

Feedback from the Volunteers
"My first day, going to give out food with the World Food Program will go down as my best memory in Africa". Anne Peacop (UK, from the Livingstone programme in Zambia)
"The whole trip was a wonderful experience, and i felt a lot of good came out of it". Mary Jane Calvert (UK, from the Antelope Park programme)
"I spent 2 days sailing around the islands off the coast of Mozambique to hand out food to stranded people it is something that I wil never forget". Ben Deary, relief expedition support and one of our Antelope Park project managers.
Contact us to take part in future relief work expeditions in Mozambique.

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