MISSAO AFRICA SOLIDARIEDADE SUSTENTAVEL
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Mission Statement
Missão África is a brazilian non-profit institution, founded in 2012. All governing directors do their function on a voluntary basis. Mission Africa was founded immediately after a trip that one of our founders took to Mozambique at the invitation of a local institution. As soon as she returned to Brazil, she gathered some friends intending to transform the reality of people living in situations of misery and vulnerability. Its aims: ● To prevent and decrease human sufferings, with impartiality and with no race, nationality, social level, religion, political opinion or philosophical theories distinction; ● To help, provide protection and assist the injured, sick and needy people, overseas; ● To fight against epidemics, to prevent diseases and to improve health with medical care and spreading personal hygiene and preventive medicine knowledge; ● To work had to fight against hunger and poverty; ● To contribute with family, maternity, childhood, adolescence and elder protection measures. Educacional center Eva & Lilito is a free fee school that seeks to offer good quality education for children. It is an in-service teacher education and training. In this center we have been working for two years now receiving children from four to six years old. Those children are not received by the government in the regular schools. Government schools receive older children. No more than 20 children per caregiver in the 4- to 6-year-old range. Consistent to interactionists principles of educational psychology, the course will emphasize the training of teachers through content that propose new meaning to teaching practice through exchange of experiences, questions and guidelines with activities that include lectures, discussions, written productions analyzes, activities propositions. The concept is to assure every child access to a quality education that respects and promotes their dignity and allows development of their full potential. We work to have a school where children attend and are safe and protected. It is a girl-friendly school that supports children and families affected by HIV and AIDS. It involves all children from diverse backgrounds and we are open for inclusion of out-of-school children including children with disabilities. We seek to be a stimulating environment for mutual respect, cultivating a sense of Community. We promote periodic rituals marking rites of passage and we donate the school uniforms as an identity symbol. We are training teachers in non-violent discipline, as well as establishing and enforcing codes of conduct that protect children from sexual harassment, abuse, violence, bullying, physical punishment, stigma and discrimination. In 2018 we started to receive our first students in a process to know better the community where we are settled and their needs. isit the houses near our building to recognize the reality that surrendered us. In 2019 a tropical storm reached Mozambique and for some months things got kind of complicated but we could manage to finish the year celebrating a ritual of passage where the children that got six were sent to the public school. In 2020 came the coronavirus pandemy and to follow the rules the school remained closed and in order to keep helping the students and their families the money that was supposed to be used to feed the children in the school was used to buy food for the families and it was distributed monthly by our team. During the whole year we made online lectures in order to keep our team of teachers motivated and recycle their knowledge through events prepared by brazilian team of volunteers specialized in child education and inclusive schools. At the end of 2020 we finally got the legal papers that gave us the ability to improve our work. In the beginning of 2021 a new tropical storm reached the country again and after that we decided to make new improvements. We are just finishing the painting of the walls now. Right now we are just waiting for the Mozambique government authorization to re-start the classes together with all other pre-school institutions in the country. The classes will start following all the sanitary protocols. To increase the distance between students the number of children in the classroom will be fifteen. In two classrooms together we will have 30 students and summing up morning and afternoon we will have 60 in total. We are planning to receive children with disabilities. Historically, people with disabilities have largely been provided for through solutions that segregate them, such as residential institutions and special schools. Policy has now shifted towards community and educational inclusion, and medically focused solutions have given way to more interactive approaches recognizing that people are disabled by environmental factors as well as by their bodies. In 2021 CEMA started Nutrition Center receiving 54 families with malnourished children.
About This Cause
When you grow up in a family that has their daily food guaranteed you cannot simply understand the concept of hunger. For many of us hunger is just the word. And why that? Nutrition is affected by emergencies such as floods, earthquakes, wars, economic and political instabilities. Such scenarios can lead to distraction of roads and markets, can promote large scale migration, can lead to the breakdown of essential services like health care facilities, can impact every house reducing access to food, loss of earnings, and in the end malnutrition diseases and deaths. One malnourished woman or the one with low weight gain during pregnancy can lead to inadequate fetal nutrition. Low birth weight babies have a high mortality rate, impaired mental development. This cycle will lead to a child stumped with reduced mental capacity and an adolescent read reduced physical capacity in another Mount nourish woman pregnant. We have a 1000 day window opportunity. We have to work hard to guarantee that pregnant women have access to local strategies to support vulnerable mothers and children. A baby girl born in the kingdom of Lesotho, near South Africa, will probably live 42 years less than a baby girl born in Japan. In Sweden the chance of a pregnant woman dying during the birth is 1 in 17.400 cases while in Afghanistan this rate is 1 in 128. Everyday 3000 people die in the world due to poverty. Severe acute malnutrition affects nearly 20 million preschool-age children, mostly from the African Region and South-East Asia Region. Childhood undernutrition is a major global health problem, contributing to childhood morbidity, mortality, impaired intellectual development, suboptimal adult work capacity, and increased risk of diseases in adulthood. While pneumonia and diarrhoea are often the final steps in the pathway, severe wasting is estimated to account for around 400 000 child deaths each year. Under nourishment, expressed in terms of the number of persons who are assumed to be unable to meet daily calorie requirements necessary for light activities. The greatest risk of undernutrition occurs during pregnancy and in the first 2 years of life and the effects of this early damage on health, brain development, intelligence, and education are chronic. Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in Society in peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity, Children living in exceptionally difficult conditions need special consideration, without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status. Considering all the facts shown above in 2021 CEMA started Nutrition Center Missão Africa receiving there 54 families with malnourished children. The families received food supplies to take home and are teached by professional nutritionists how to feed their children using also what they can grow at home. The assistance families get at the center are free of charge. In the center they plant farm trees such as Moringa and other crops to share with the families. The area where the center is located has plenty of space to increase the plantation area as more financial support is available.