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This is your chance to take that life-changing adventure, find your purpose in service, create life-long friendships, and see faith in a new, transformative way. ADRA Connections is ADRA's short-term volunteer program that takes you into the field to put compassion into action and make an impact for communities in need. No experience necessary!
"VIVA +" is a 4.3 million dollar multi-year project being implemented by ADRA Mozambique in partnership with the Foundation for Community Development (FDC), financed by the Global Fund. ADRA currently has 692 workers, 517 of whom are women, representing 74% of the total workforce. In 2021 it had a total of 18 active projects in 31 districts of the country that reached more than 445,966 beneficiaries.
The "VIVA +" project is taking place in 64 districts of the country and ADRA is implementing it as a sub-recipient in 13 districts of Zambézia province, namely: Alto Molócuè, Derre, Gurué, Luabo, Milange, Mocuba, Mopeia, Morrumbala, Mulevala, Namacurra, Nicoadala, Pebane and Quelimane. The project has a permanent memorandum of understanding with the Directorate
Provincial Health Department, Zambezia Provincial Directorate of Education and Human Development and the Provincial Council for Combating HIV/AIDS. The main aim of this intervention is to ensure access to comprehensive knowledge about sexual and reproductive health as well as HIV prevention and skills that contribute to lowering the risk of girls' vulnerability to infection.
HIV among young people and girls in all the targeted districts. According to the objectives set, by 2023 the project will reach more than 93,466 young men and women aged 10 to 24 in schools and 174,918 young men and women aged 15 to 24 outside schools, making a total of 268,384 beneficiaries.
Volunteer
This is your chance to take that life-changing adventure, find your purpose in service, create life-long friendships, and see faith in a new, transformative way. ADRA Connections is ADRA's short-term volunteer program that takes you into the field to put compassion into action and make an impact for communities in need. No experience necessary!
The main interventions include dissemination of information on communication and education for the adoption of healthy behaviors; human rights interventions, including legal literacy; follow-up of cases at community level until their resolution; life skills; comprehensive sexuality education, including HIV/STI prevention, through mentor teachers, with the support of school assistants, in the 13 implementing districts. In order to ensure success, the project is working with 181 schools in the aforementioned districts and in their respective communities. At the moment, a total of 540 employees are part of this ADRA project, including school assistants, activists, mentor boys, paralegals and supervisors. There are also mentor teachers, but these are officials from the Education sector (MINEDH).
The VIVA+ project is strengthening sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people in schools and communities, including HIV prevention, and is creating demands for Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services (SAAJ) as well as school counseling centers.
Testimonial by Graça Basília
At just 21, Graça has two children. She currently lives in Bairro, Mocuba district, in Zambézia province. With her two children, Graça Basília still lives at home with her parents and, due to her early pregnancy, she felt obliged to drop out of school. Graça told ADRA staff that she didn't know about the risks associated with adolescence: "That's why I got pregnant early," she confessed. "I'm happy to be part of the VIVA+ project in my community. I hope the project lasts a long time so that I
learn more about sexually transmitted infections, HIV, tuberculosis, as well as domestic violence. As one of the beneficiaries, I am committed to spreading the lessons learned to my friends who have not yet come into contact with the project's activists," Graça emphasized Given the activities and approaches of VIVA+, Graça Basília is back at school and is currently benefiting from a family planning package promoted by the project.
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