EOY 2024
PLATAFORMA MAKOBO COMMUNITY PROJECT
Visit Plataforma Makobo and meet award-winning founder Ruy Santos, who won the Commonwealth Points of Light Award in 2020 from Queen Elizabeth. Plataforma Makobo provides and fosters services aimed at promoting the social well-being of disadvantaged groups, through individual and corporate accountability actions that, carried out in the continuous, effective, planned and sustained manner, contribute for the social, cultural and economic development of the country.
MAFALALA WALKING TOUR
The Mafalala Walking Tour takes guests on an enlightening three-hour visit through a historic neighbourhood in the Capital.
Learn more about Mozambiques history, and get acquianted with the delicious food and community life, the Mafalala literature, Marrabenta (local rhythm), traditional dancing and sports.
The are is home to icons including Eusebio da Silva Ferrera, Jose Craveirinha, Fanny Mpfumo, Samora Machel and Tufo da Mafalala, aka ‘Muthiana Orera’.
The tour is part of a community development programme run by a local NGO focused on elevating the Mafalala community and creating opportunities for it’s women and youth.
MACANETA SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT
Macaneta Sustainability Project, also known as the Glass House Project based at an Eco Centre at the Macaneta Beach Resort (a 45 minute drive from Maputo). The project is an impactful recycling project uplifting the community with the mission to address the current environmental challenges that are being faced on the Macaneta Peninsula and surrounding areas and to provide education and raise awareness on the global environmental crisis.
The project includes the construction of a fully sustainable Eco-friendly building (Casa De Vidro / Villa Ambaramo) made from glass bottles in place of bricks which have been collected as part of various clean-up initiatives in the local area. This unique building is solar powered and makes use of water collected through rainwater harvesting. This building serves as living quarters and contains a kitchen, restroom and meeting room for the project team and is open to visitors to view and gain an understanding of sustainable living.
KUVIKELA PROGRAMME
The Kuvikela Programme empowers women living in this landscape with management training and supplies stock for setting up retail shops, hair salons, and small creating businesses to generate an income. These alternative ways to make a living also help ecosystems to be restored, by relieving the pressure of local people’s needs on the environment.
The project has so far provided 59 local women with a simple yet effective way to support themselves in the long terms and sustain their natural resources.