Goals & initiatives
Educational goals
All projects to be: "by the people for the people"
- To prepare 10 local people per year for work in tourism
- Capacity building for local entrepreneurs
- To provide hotel management training
- To start and operate a chain of nursery schools
- To sponsor more secondary school students
- To integrate the Eco College within the Mozambican national system
- Sustainable Development initiatives, e.g. helping local salt producers
- Tree-planting
- We initiated a training restaurant "Sunset Boulevard" (a beachside guest house) in Mossuril Vila.
- HIV-awareness classes and adult literacy classes
- We fight malaria
Sustainable Development initiatives
- To open a tourism complex and wild life park in Milange, Zambezia
- More Micro-credits
- Fish-farming
- To initiate internet cafes in selected villages
- Women's project: sewing workshops and co-operative
- To introduce community water sports e.g. wind and kite surfing, diving etc
Sustainable Development initiatives (continued)
- To initiate The Green Project to help curb random burning of woodland
- With The White Ribbon Alliance, to lower infant and maternity mortality rates
- In 2005, with support from Rabobank Foundation, we started an experimental farm
- We provide full time, enjoyable employment to 72 local men and women
- In January 2008, we paid to bring electricity to Cabaceira Grande
- In 2008, with Stichting de Boomgaarden, we restored and equipped Bom Futuro Primary School in Cabaceira Grande
- We help local entrepreneurs to start or expand their own business
- We have given out 460 Micro-credits to local villagers
- A medicinal plant plantation and study center
- In 2008, jointly with DOEN Foundation we started a community center project
Our Ultimate aim
- To help Mozambicans become self-supporting
