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ICM's Charities of Choice - 2009~2010
ICM's donations to charities for this year and to include some/all of the proceeds from the November Bazaar will be:
All Nations Mozambique: This is in Matola and looks after about 25 young children - all under 5 - who are orphans, have been found abandoned in rubbish bins and by the sides of roads. Some are HIV positive and are on treatment. The members of the club visited earlier this year and were very enthusiastic about the work being done there.
Casa Allegria: This is Mozambique's only hospice and provides care for adults and children who are HIV positive or have AIDS. The nuns are the Missionaries of Charity , Mother Teresa's order. They need supplies of food, cleaning materials, bedding. They do outreach work in the community (Hulene B) and also try their best to re-integrate people in to the community if they are well enough. They are at risk of opportunistic infections if they stay in the environment of the hospice unnecessarily.
Horizonte Azul: This is a youth project run by a very dynamic activist called Dalila Macuacua. They are starting a sports and drawing and design course as an after school activity and would like sports equipment and some arts supplies. They are working with children who are vulnerable in Maxaquene. This is a bona fide organisation and when I met the activist this week she gave me a quarterly magazine called "Crescendo" in which there is a feature and an interview with her.
Ingrid Chawner Centre: They work with street boys and provide a home for 36 of them, with the emphasis on providing education and life skills.They try to re-integrate all the boys into their families and last year had a 100% success rate (the previous year it was 70%) There is a school also run by them which has 1800 places, open to students from the surrounding area. They are in Zimpeto. The ICM is donating mattresses as they are very old and sworn.
Machaka: This is a youth organisation in the bairro opposite Shoprite on Accordos de Lusaka. They run a very vibrant dance and music group and want to start computer training . They are asking for 1 computer. They already have 4 or 5 old computers and are learning to touch type and create documents.We would make secure the door to the office where the computer is to be stored. The window is already secure. The room is next to the police station in the bairro. The electricity supply is good and they will approach TDM about internet access. See their website to find out about the dance and music performances.
ICM's Latest Visit to Charity
May 7, 2009 - Visit to Acro Iris
A small group of us went to visit Arco Iris at Zimpeto, to meet 5 young men who the ICM is sponsoring to train as electricians. They were being trained at the Silesian College in Maputo, which is a well recognised technical institution here in Mozambique. A sixth teenager is training to be a welder. They have a few more months to go until they are qualified electricians and then they will be looking for apprenticeships in local companies.
It was a pleasure to meet them and to hear directly how the training is enhancing their lives – pride in mastering a skill and being able to do it well and hope for finding future employment. They were all very well turned out, polite and articulate young men. They all mentioned that it was a great opportunity to meet us and to say thank you and that meant a lot to them. They could put faces to our organisation now and that gave a personal touch. It was a pleasure to meet them and we hope that we can make a trip there again.
ICM's Charities of Choice - 2008~2009
All Nations has elected to use the ICM's donation of $1700.00 for new bedding and curtains in their orhpanage in addition to supplementing their special dietary needs for the children. Click here for further details about All Nations.
The Arco Iris orphanage will use the $1,500.00 they are receiving from the ICM for educational funding. Six of their boys will be able to complete their electrician certification courses this year due to these funds. Click here for further details about Arco Iris.
Centro de Alfabetizacao Casa Madre Rosetta
The center will use the $1700.00 they receive from the ICM to support their girls' needs in school supplies for the upcoming year. They also need 30 new desks. Money left over after purchasing the necessary school supplies will go toward these desks. Click here for further details about the center.
Obra Missionaria de Jesus y Maria
The boarding school has received a donation of 32,625 mtn (about $1,305.00) for a computer and a computer table that will be used by up to 75 girls between the ages of 8 and 18... click herefor further details about this school.
ICM's Charities of Choice - 2008~2009 (Non-financial support)
Joe and Lorraine are a British couple who originally came to work in Maputo for the Port Authority. Joe then began working for the Overseas Development...click here for further details.
The following is a brief report on the background and activities of the Horizonte Azul (Blue Horizon) Association, the general context in which children in Mozambique struggle to gain an education, and individual portraits of 26 children click herefor further details.
The Machaka Association was founded in 2000. The 27th September this year is the 8th anniversary of it's foundation. The initial association ...click herefor further details.
ICM's Special Charity Project
May & August 2008 - Joline's 8 Habitat Houses
After Joline's death, the ICM and Joline's family and friends funded and organized a Habitat for Humanity build in Massaca, near Boane. Over 45 members of our community were involved. See that website for more information - www.jolineshouses.org.
Message(s) from Charity Coodinator(s):
Next Charity Meeting
14h30-16h30, 26th January 2010
@ Jane P.'s house.
All are welcome. We will give an update on donations which have recently been distributed. Please bring along other ideas - groups you would like to support, donations being sought, new projects - all are very welcome!
Special Thanks to
Maputo Accueil for a donation of 7,000 mtn for supporting ICM's charities of choice.
Also Thanks to
Açúcar Nacional for the donation of 100 kgs of sugar to ICM sponsored charities!
Charity Updates - Donations
June 2009
Jane went to Catembe to visit IMAGINE with the sugar from Açúcar Nacional and some clothes donated by herself and Celesta. The clothes were distributed to the people living in the “old people’s village” that IMAGINE supports.
Kanimambo’s (thanks), dancing and singing were all part of the distribution. The IMAGINE staff who arranged the distribution also had a wonderful time. See photos here.
April 2009
For the past few months, Jane has received many items donated by members and their friends which have been distributed to some of our sponsored charities. Special thanks to Jane for her time and all involved members for their kindness.
- The bags (Joline's own bags donated by Diepak) - have been given to the Literacy Centre Madre Rosetta at Jardin.
- The women's clothes - 3 large bags from Sabine Guelat and Maputo Accueil - were given to Ca-Paz.
- The Maki T-shirts plus some children's clothes from Sabine were given to the orphanage and school Arco Iris at Zimpeto.
- One fax machine and phone have been given to Horizonte Azul - they were given by TOTAL.
March 2009
The ICM bought 12, 500 meticais worth of exercise books, pencils, pens, school text books, school bags, drawing paper, colouring pencils, geometry sets and other school related items for the disadvantaged children in the Horizonte Azul project in the bairro of Maxaquene A. The donations were distributed at a community day on Saturday March 7th. Dalila thanked the ICM for their support and hoped that with the help of our donations that they could improve the educational achievements of the children." (click here to see some photos of this day and the Thank you letter).
January 2009
Fundraising activities in 2008 included the Mad Hatter's in late November and the Christmas Concert on December 14th at Vila Verde. Both of these events were loads of fun to organize and participate in. In addition to having a good time, we were able to raise quite a bit of funds for our four selected charities. The ICM board met on January 13th in order to finalize how these funds would be spent. See ICM's Charities of Choice - 2008~2009 for how each charity benefits from last year's fundraising events.