ESSOR (Beira, Mozambique)
Support: 2010 to 2013
This project, started in 2010 under a 3-year
funding agreement. This project supports urban social development
in the poorest districts of Beira, one of Mozambique’s biggest
harbour cities. ESSOR, a French development non-profit organization
has been present in Mozambique for almost a decade, focusing on the
following objectives:
- Improving access to education through
pre-primary educational programmes for 750 three- to six-year old
children and social-skills development programmes for some 2,500
teenagers;
- Improving health through better access to
clean water, healthier environment and practices for over 3,000
families;
- Building capacity of the civil society through
the provision of organizational and institutional support/coaching
for local community-based organizations.