Collaboration with Ummu Salma Orphanage in Machava

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Collaboration with Ummu Salma Orphanage in Machava

Last 10th May, the collaboration with Ummu Salma Orphanage in Machava started. I received a suggestion from my friends Rafa and Linda (working also as volunteers in Technical College in Machava). They suggested to work with this orphanage as sponsor. After thinking about it, visiting the orphanage and seeing it is not an excessive cost to that can affect CT, I decided to accept.

The help consists on an economical support (400 meticais = 10 euros every week) to buy food and fruit 3 days per week. Therefore, children from orphanage can have varied and different dinners.

In case we find more sponsors in a future (we are only 4 at this moment), we will increase the days with prepared and varied dinner. For the moment, we are waiting for the reply of different people.

The orphanage is made up of 21 children from 7 to 20 years who go to school in the nearest centers. All of them are orphans or have been abandoned and they are all Muslims. They would like to increase the number of places up to 50.

Orfanato Ummu Salma

Ummu Salma center is an orphanage placed in Machava where there are 21 children (any girl) from 7 to 20 years old. Children live there as boarding pupils and they go to the nearest shcools.

The collaboration is not only in economic terms but also, we will offer free help with:

Community instructors (youngers with minimum studies who are doing social services as teachers in deprived rural communities)
Students of Agriculture in order they can cultivate and take care of the orchard in the orphanage

*These two groups are students from Technical College so, it will be also an oportunity for them to practise.

We are also thinking about buying some mosquito nets since most of them don't have.