Together we can!
‘Pamoja Tunaweza’ is a phrase in Kiswahili that means ‘Together We Can’. This is the affirmation made by the collective voices of the host communities and Mozambique LNG Project stakeholders. It is a convening forum with the purpose of promoting open, transparent communication addressing expectations, making decisions, and monitoring the progress of all the projects responding to the needs identified by the local communities.
Under the umbrella of ‘Pamoja Tunaweza,’ the Mozambique LNG Project, operated by TotalEnergies, has consolidated the voices of local communities, and public and private stakeholders locally and nationally to improve the performance of the existing projects while exploring future initiatives.
- We have eight houses located in the Matola Santos community.
- Each house provides a home for a family consisting of a substitute mother and 4-6 children.
- Each mother is given an amount that covers the family’s monthly expenses (food, water, electric, etc.)
- The mother is also given a subsidy for her own personal use. She is not an employee, but a beneficiary of our foundation.
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We promote family-based orphan care
We believe that children belong in families, not institutions or centers. Decades of research prove the best place for a child’s physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual development is in a family-based home.
- The Sunshine Homes Project creates families by pairing a widowed or vulnerable woman with 4 - 6 orphaned children.
- The children are raised by a Mozambican substitute mother (or zeladora), within a Mozambican community, in the Mozambican culture, according to Mozambican customs.
- The children remain in our care until they complete their education. We will then assist them in finding employment and set them off to an independent life as a contributing member of their society
Creating families
We currently have eight families living in our 8 homes with each family is limited to 6 children.
Providing everyday support and guidance to each family, we look after each family member’s spiritual, physical, and emotional needs. We strive to ensure that every one of our children do not think of themselves as an orphan but as a child in a normal family.
Each year during the children’s school holiday in August, we take any children who have living extended family members for a visit with their family.
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Community Project
The project is very simple – it is a safe place where children can come to play, learn, dance, sing, and eat breakfast (tea and pao). We call this project “Beacons of Light” because that is what they are to the surrounding community children and their families. It gives our substitute mothers purpose and raises their self-esteem.
When our Sunshine Houses children are at school, their substitute mothers operate this small project for the vulnerable children who live in the community around their homes. Because these women live in the community, they know which children are living in homes where their parents struggle to provide for their needs. With the permission of the children’s parents, our substitute mothers each invite 12 children to attend the project.
Our foundation additionally helps these families by providing financial support for any medical or educational needs that these children or their family members may have.
Educational support
In 2022 a community learning centre was established providing a place for our children to participate in a variety of programs. The centre is equipped with a library of books and a newly installed StarLink internet system that will greatly enhance the education of our children. With the recent donation of computers we have begun a technology course for our children. The centre offers a space for our children to receive tutoring in the afternoons as well as access to a variety of extra lessons (instrumental, dance, art and sports).
Raising Awareness
