Located in Southern Africa, Mozambique is a country with a population of 21.2 million. With an illiteracy rate of 61% and 74.1% of the population living under USD $2 a day poverty remains widespread in the country. The Hunger Project has been working in Mozambique since 2006 and is empowering 17,000 partners in three epicenter communities.
The epicenter community in Mozambique has developed a strategy for additional communal land with small plots for each cluster of villages to use as agricultural land to supply food in addition to that of the epicenter food bank.
Thousands of local residents join Hunger Project investors, Mozambique's former president, Global Board Member Joaquim Chissano, and Africa Prize Laureate Celina Cossa for the inauguration of the first epicenter in Mozambique.
Sanaz Memarsadeghi, AWFFI Program Officer, reports that The Hunger Project-Mozambique African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFII) program is well underway in both Chokwe and Manhica epicenters.
