The Mozambique program at IICD offers you the chance to spend 6 or 12 months in Mozambique volunteering at one of the projects run by ADPP Mocambique (part of Humana People to People).

Mozambique, unlike Angola, has been at peace since 1992. Mozambique is still however, one of the poorest countries in the world. Affected by frequent natural disasters – flooding in particular – most of which never are mentioned in the western media, but which affect thousands of Mozambiquans every year.

Approximately one in six adults are HIV+ in Mozambique. One shocking consequence of this is that more Mozambiquan teachers die of opportunistic infections due to AIDS than are being trained each year. Some IICD volunteers work (and have worked) at teacher training colleges run by ADPP - these colleges enroll 60-70 students a year on a two and a half year program. Normally a few of these students (who are aged in their mid-twenties) die of AIDS before they complete their training – a human tragedy !
Therefore HIV/AIDS education is a crucial part of the work at all of the projects of ADPP in Mozambique.

The people of Mozambique are eager and motivated to take part in development. The first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Michel, spent two years traveling throughout the country talking to the people and making clear his expectation that the people themselves are responsible for their own development – outside agencies can only participate and assist. You can be part of that process !

IICD volunteers currently work at the projects in Nhamatanda in central Mozambique (where there is a Child Aid project, a teacher-training college, and a vocational school). Some volunteers are also working at the teacher training college in Macuse, in the lower half of Mozambique. In the past there have also been positions available in Chimoio.