Former AFSC Program Thriving - Success of OCODEMA in Mozambique

One Year Later: Former AFSC Program Thrives in Mozambique

OCODEMA - Christine's Report

Views on the road from Harare, Zimbabwe to Manica, Mozambique
Entering Manica District in Mozambique
OCODEMA now is in the completion phase of construction of their own offices. They plan to move into the office within the next two months. This is one of their greatest achievements for OCODEMA in the last year.
New OCODEMA Office under construction: Front yard view
Staff discuss construction at the new office in Manica
Ana Mlambo, former AFSC & current OCODEMA staff talks with Patrick Otipa, former AFSC-Mozambique director during visit to OCODEMA projects.
OCODEMA Board members and staff pose with AFSC delegation. OCODEMA has an active board that meets every three months. AFSC assistance to board made the transition easier, clarifying the roles of each board member & planning for the future.
En route to an OCODEMA project in Manica District.
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Group of the chickens in "Women for Women" project
Member of Madzimai Batsiranai – loosely translated as "women help each other"
Justice Duri, OCODEMA Director listens to Women's group
Members of Maoko I Hama: They are happy with the results of their efforts.
One of the group's members shows us the chicken in their chicken coop
The Adult Education Classroom in Manica
As they continue to learn they are hungry for more and they are managing to learn even as they are shouldering additional responsibilities e.g. work, children, etc.
These adults come to school so as to learn more about agriculture and mathematics and to know how to produce more and if it is fetching a profit. Most of the class members were not available since it was midweek and they were at work in the gold mines.

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The visit by a delegation to OCODEMA, a local Mozambican organization celebrated the one year of its independence from AFSC.

Chickens, stoves and literacy meant success for the first year of a new organization in Mozambique supported by AFSC.

In your hands - Mozambique Women's Group

Maoko I Hama

Members of Maoko I Hama: They are happy with the results of their efforts.
One of the group's members shows us the chicken in their chicken coop
Inside the chicken coop
Maoko I Hama chicken coop

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Maoko Ihama (Your hands are your family) Women’s Group

During 1992 the Maoko Ihama women’s group formed and had a bakery and raised chickens. The group had mostly disbanded by the early 2000s when their chicken started dying from disease. OCODEMA met up with them in 2010 and helped them to join back together and revive the chicken rearing project with 10 members.

Raising chickens for our futures - Mozambique

Madzimai Batsiranai (Women for Women Self Help Group)

 

The group has 10 women members and they received 4 day old chicks and chicken feed as a starter kit for their work in April 2011. 

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