Junior was born with low birth weight (2400g) to a vulnerable teenage mother who soon developed mastitis, severely impacting breastfeeding and causing Junior's weight to drop to 2100g. After a community health worker's intervention led to their enrollment in a MAMI pathway at a local health center, Junior was eventually referred and admitted to Metuge District Hospital for severe acute malnutrition, receiving F-100 treatment and comprehensive care for seven days. Following discharge, he continued monitoring at a MAMI space with ongoing nutritional and breastfeeding support, while his mother participated in support sessions. The family, initially believing Junior wouldn't survive due to cultural beliefs, witnessed his full recovery, transforming his grandmother into a community health volunteer, highlighting the success of health education, community support, and nutrition interventions.

On the north coast of Mozambique, the village of Pangane, in Macomia district, is known for the tranquillity of its beaches and the simplicity of its people. However, in recent years, the region has been marked by scarce opportunities and constant fear due to attacks by non-state armed groups, which have already forced thousands of families to abandon their homes and lose their livelihoods.

As part of the implementation of the Support for Education Project, which started on November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024. After the attacks of March 24, 2021, two years later, the education sector has faced numerous challenges in terms of materials to guarantee the teaching and learning process.  It is in this context that the project comes in to support the education sector, with a view to ensuring that the teaching and learning process takes place without leaps and bounds in this atypical environment that is plaguing the province of Cabo Delgado and in particular the district of Palma.

As part of the implementation of the Save the Children Japan's self-fund Project (Support for Education), which began on November 1, 2023 and ends on October 31, 2024. After the attacks of March 24, 2021, two years later, the education sector has faced numerous challenges in terms of materials to guarantee the teaching and learning process and school infrastructures that were also destroyed due to the abandonment of communities in the face of attacks by members of non-state forces.  This is where the project comes in to support the education sector, with a view to guaranteeing a safe environment for children so that the teaching and learning process can achieve its objectives. 

In the context of implementing the Save the Children Japan's self-fund project (Education Support), which runs from 1st November 2023 to 31st October 2024, significant challenges remain in the education sector two years after the attacks of 24th March 2021. These challenges include a lack of materials necessary to ensure the teaching and learning process. The project aims to support the education sector to guarantee that teaching and learning can continue smoothly despite the atypical environment affecting Cabo Delgado province, particularly Palma district.

Mozambique Takes Another Step Towards Eliminating Child Marriages with a Learning Event Under the Theme “Empowering Girls to Combat Child Marriages”

Principally funded by the Green Climate Fund, with co-financing from Save the Children Italy, Norad, the Government of Mozambique, and AEROMAP, LINK will integrate climate adaptation investments through Local Adaptation Plans into social protection via the Productive Social Action Program (PASP), enhancing Mozambique's Adaptive Social Protection framework. The project aims to increase the climate resilience of 415,000 people, particularly those most vulnerable, to prepare for, cope with, adapt to, and improve their food and water security and well-being, ensuring they do not fall deeper into poverty. 

Save the Children implemented the UNGUMI project from 2018-2022 in response to the significant sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs of adolescent girls and boys in Zambézia province.