AVSI Foundation (Mozambique)

AVSI is present in Mozambique since 2010, working in the education, urban development, emergency, energy and environment sectors.
With 18 projects in the provinces of Maputo, Cabo Delgado and Zambezia, AVSI receives funds from various donors: AICS, UE, ENI, UNICEF, UNHCR, ECW, CAFOD/DEC, Emilia Romagna Region, IOM, WFP, Belgian MDC and private donors.

Education and Vocational Training
AVSI has a great experience in the implementation of educational programs in various schools and in collaborating with universities in Maputo and Pemba. The activities carried out include:

-methodological and motivational training for professors
-infrastructural interventions
-strengthening of schools
-psycho-social support
-extracurricular activities
-home visits

AVSI has developed its own methodology for orientation, vocational training and integration in the job market urban development
AVSI works in the suburbs of Maputo and Pemba with a participatory, community and integration method that allows the identification and improvement of the priorities highlighted by the population. The support consists in an environmental analysis of the areas and the socio-economic dynamics to get to know their state and to elaborate urban plans.

Emergency
Following the various climatic and non-climatic crises that have deeply affected Mozambique in the last years, AVSI intervenes with emergency projects in different areas to respond to the first needs of internally displaced people. Activities implemented include shelter, child protection, education, food security/nutrition, WASH components and are addressed both to IDPs and host communities .

Energy and Environment
AVSI is in charge of distributing and selling Improved Cooking Stoves . The goals that have been reached are the following:
50,000 improved cooking stoves sold;
Institution of a social cooperative with the aim of creating employment in the areas of the project;
Local production of improved cookstoves to increase the selling market and local entrepreneurship;
Reduction of CO2 emissions
Reduction in the use of charcoal and a consequent increase in families' incomes