Oasis Academy Fir Vale are pleased to announce that we raised £236.50 at our Summer Fair to support Oasis Mozambique!
We had great fun at the Summer Fair where parents, children and community partners were able to enjoy stalls, games and yummy treats as well as winning prizes in our raffle.
Oasis have been working in Mozambique since 2002 and have 3 Hubs in Beira, Manga Loforte, Ngupa and Ponta Gea where we run a number of projects such as:
WASH Project (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) - As a direct response to high child mortality rates in Manga Loforte, Oasis has launched an initiative to improve health care and protect lives by sharing knowledge and providing education. By utilising the widely known ‘Care Group’ approach, a small group of volunteer women – known as ‘Change Agents’ – receive regular training, supervision and mentoring on health promotion, home based care and disease prevention and management. E ach member of this group then visits 10-12 neighbourhoods on a regular basis, embedding preventative practises to over 1,200 households a week.
Livelihood improvement – By enrolling them on courses that will help them to secure employment or start a small business, Oasis Mozambique gives young people the opportunity to participate in life skills programmes aimed at restoring their dignity. Oasis Mozambique is passionate about helping young people to discover, develop and deploy their unique talents and abilities. Teaching specialised skills and running dynamic internship programmes are a huge part of the work that they do, all of which is geared towards helping the young people become effective ‘Change Agents’ in their communities. Currently, the youth work is not funded and all the work is done on an informal basis.
You can read more about Oasis Mozambique as well as Oasis’ other global communities here: https://www.oasisuk.org/oasis-global/