Republic of Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world with majority of its population in poverty and faces many difficult-to-solve problems. To contribute to the improvement of human dignity of the people living there, Bridge for Lives in Mozambique supports each individual in acquiring the knowledge and wisdom necessary for surviving the situation and to solve problems by themselves. The NGO conducts activities to improve the quality of life, including building and operating educational facilities in slums, improving the water supply infrastructure and conducting hygiene education in undeveloped rural areas, and supporting the activities of artists who are rooted in traditional culture.
The NGO built Pemba Shelter and Nampula Terakoya School to respond to the rapid increase in the number of refugees resulting from the conflict in the country. However, both buildings have no water supply facilities, and it forces refugees to live in insanitary conditions. In this project, the water supply is to be installed in the Shelter with a well and a water storage tank in the School to enable people to access safe water.
Megumi Enomoto, president of the Bridge for Lives in Mozambique, founded this NGO in 2013 to resolve the discrepancy between the logic of developed countries, such as environmental issues and the actual status of living and the needs of poor countries, which she faced in Africa. She began construction of the school and Terakoya as educational facilities in the Natite District, the largest slum in Cabo Delgado Province, in the same year. She is working with Mozambican volunteers to improve the quality of life of poor people there, focusing on education and sanitation.
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