MOZAMBIQUE

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MozAjude03-07 Ilha de Moçambique, (Nampula Province) 02-Jul-07 to 17-Jul-07 RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering. 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.

MozAjude02-07 Chimanimani (Manica Province) 02-Jul-07 to 17-Jul-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation:In huts or tents provided by the local authorities, self catering and so showers. 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. Portuguese and English are the Camp Languages.

MozAjude01-07 Manhiça District Maputo Province 02-Jul-07 to 17-Jul-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering. 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.

MozAjude06-07 Gorongoza National Park, (Sofala Province) 25-Jul-07 to 08-Aug-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation

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

MozAjude04-07 Xai-xai Beach (Gaza Province) 25-Jul-07 to 08-Aug-07 ENVI 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering. 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 20th 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.

MozAjude05-07 Maputo National Reserve (Maputo Province) 25-Jul-07 to 08-Aug-07 ENVI 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. Work: The volunteers will be carrying out various environmental tasks inside the natural reserve in collaboration with the Department of the Areas of Conservation of the Minister of Tourism, and environment education as well as take part in the community organized activities. Accommodation: Huts or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering. Location: The Maputo Natural Reserve, with 1040 km² of area (locally known as Reserva Especial de Maputo) is located in the southernmost part of Mozambique, 79 km south of Maputo Province, on the Inhaca Peninsula. It encompasses the area from the Indian Ocean on the eastern boundary to the Rio Maputo on the western edge. The Maputo reserve is part of the Lubombos Tran frontier park, which links the Maputo Elephant Reserve in Mozambique through the Futi Corridor and the Lubombo Conservancy in Swaziland to the Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa, creating the first major elephant stronghold along Africa's eastern coastline.

MozAjude09-07 Catandica District (Manica Province) 15-Aug-07 to 30-Aug-07 ENVI/EDUC 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Location: Catandica District is located in Manica Province in the Center of Mozambique, about 1200 kms from capital city Mozambique (Maputo) and about 75kms from Chimoio, Manica Capital City. Chimoio is the fifth largest city and is the archetypal small southern Africa town. It is attractive for its landscape and for the climate.

MozAjude08-07 Tofo Beach (Inhambane Province) 15-Aug-07 to 30-Aug-07 ENVI/EDUC 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

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.

MozAjude07-07 Zalala Beach, (Zambezia Province) 15-Aug-07 to 30-Aug-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

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.

MozAjude10-07 Praia do Bilene, (Gaza Province) 05-Sep-07 to 20-Sep-07 RENO/ENVI 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. Work: The work will consist mainly on renovating a primary school earlier build by AJUDE as well as carry out many other environmental activities in collaboration with the local authorities. Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, No Shower, Self-Catering: 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.

MozAjude11-07 Ilha da Inhaca (Maputo Province) 14-Dec-07 to 29-Dec-07 ENVI 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering. Location: Inhaca Island is situated about 40 km away from Maputo Capital City, being separated from it by the Indian Ocean. With calm, warm and blue waters. Few steps on the right there is another small island called “Ilha dos Portugueses”. The volunteers will have the opportunity to live in a very diverse ecosystem and also to get to see one of the most protected species, the aquatic turtles. It can take half hour in a boat ride. The main economic activity is fishing.

MozAjude12-07 Chimoio (Manica Province) 14-Dec-07 to 29-Dec-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation: Classroom or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering. Location: Chimoio is located about 1100km from Maputo and 460 km from Harare.

MozAjude13-07 Limpopo National Park, (Gaza Province) 14-Dec-07 to 29-Dec-07 ENVI/RENO 20 V. Ages 20+ Fee:$250.00 Xtra Fee: $210.00 REPORT REFUND: $50.00

Please view www.vfp.org/directory/AfricaConditions.htm for a general introduction to our programs in Africa. Participants should arrive at least two days before the camp starts for orientation. 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. Accommodation: Huts or Tents, no Shower, Self-Catering.

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.