MSRHP
MSRHP PROJECT TRAINS GIRLS AND TEENAGERS IN DRESSMAKING IN MATUTUÍNE DISTRICT, MAPUTO PROVINCE
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The Matutuíne Sexual and Reproductive Health Project (MSRP), which is being implemented by ADRA Mozambique in partnership with the government of Mozambique, through ADRA Austria funds - City of ViennaThis Friday, October 26, around 19 girls from the Sekeleka Youth Club in the town of Zitundo, in the district of Matutuíne, graduated in cutting and sewing, as a basic tool for starting their economic activities.
The ceremony was attended by Her Excellency the Administrator of the Matutuíne district, Juliana Cornélio Mwitu, who, in the prelude to her speech, congratulated the graduates and reiterated the need for a continuous effort on the part of the girls who graduated from ADRA in the locality of Zitundo, with a view to guaranteeing self-sustainable income generation and reducing the high levels of poverty and vulnerability in the Matutuíne district.
"We as the government of the Matutuíne district are extremely pleased to see that our girls now have the basic tools to create self-employment." he said and added "We would like to thank ADRA Mozambique and its partners for their efforts. We can see from the sample garments made that our girls are already ready for the market."
He continued "we also want to appeal to parents and guardians to encourage your daughters never to give up on their dreams, today they can sew uniforms and sell them to schools here in the district and this will benefit them, it will allow them to continue with their studies until higher education." He appealed.
For his part, Euclides Diogo Zavala, Head of the Zitundo Administrative Post in the Matutuíne district, emphasized the girls' commitment to the activities for which they were trained and called for a collective and individual effort from the girls in the club in order to make their business profitable and increasingly sustainable.
"We want to salute and congratulate our girls from Zitundo for having embraced this ADRA project and for having made it to this stage. Today, you are ready, but that's not all. There is now a need for each of you to continue your efforts to keep your club going and make your business sustainable." He reiterated.
On the community side, Francisco Tembe, the head of the Zitundo Administrative Post, said he was thrilled with this initiative because, according to him, it was designed to reduce the various levels of vulnerability among girls in the Matutuíne district.
"NoI don't have enough words to express it, my heart is full of gratitude," he said emotionally, and continued "I'm the father of one of the beneficiaries of this project, and I've noticed changes in her character since she started taking part in this initiative. Initially, my daughter had a habit of spending nights away from home, but now she doesn't go out at night, she studies and is increasingly focused. She already knows how to sew clothes, she's acquired techniques for earning money and that's thanks to ADRA."
Isabel Armando Tembe, one of the graduates and beneficiaries of the MSRHP project in the Matutuíne district, says she is happy to be part of this initiative and says she is already applying the knowledge she acquired during the course.
"I've gained a lot of knowledge in this project. When we joined, I didn't know anything about sexual and reproductive health, but today I speak with knowledge and I've been sharing it with my classmates." I addu "We already know how to sew clothes with machines and I personally have made personal efforts to never lose the practice, part of the uniforms we have made we sell to our neighbors and they have supported us." I said.
Point out that this three-year project (2021-2024) has the main objective of contributing to access to basic sexual and reproductive health services for girls and young women, as well as establishing self-sustaining centers for them with a sustainable business model and ensuring their ability to obtain sustainable livelihoods through formal income-generating activities.
The project has been running since November 1, 2021 and ends on October 30, 2024. It has a total of 75 beneficiaries, 25 of whom are in the town of Zitundo (Sekeleka Jovem Club); 25 in the town of Madjuva (Kndlemuka Madjuva Club) and 25 in the town of Ponta de Ouro (Raparigas da Ponta Club).
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