In a country where almost 23 million out of 30 million inhabitants have no access to proper sanitation, this is a big problem but comes also with big opportunities. The idea comes as a result of a biological urban sanitation project which was financed by Via Water that ended in December 2018. During this project …
Elga Angelina Victor Manuel, Antonio Armando Cebola, Amilcar Canda. Thats the group! They are working on the project “Stars of the future”, in Portuguese “Estrelas do futuro”. Every one of them working for the Organisation ESSOR. The organisation aims to help the most vulnerable populations to acquire the means to improve their living conditions in …
Neli is living in Beira, a city on the coastline of Mozambique. She has travelled to a lot of places and got a lot of experience and images from all around the world. But always when she is back in her hometown something makes her restless. Seeing a number of kids out there living on …
Horizonte de Crianças – A Brighter Horizon for Homeless Children Read More »
Flore Roura is a French social entrepreneur and business manager that began her idea of improving soil with the help of urban waste with the goal of bettering agricultural outputs, while living in Madagascar in 2008. She is a mother of two children and is now living and implementing her activity in Beira, a city …
Urban Waste is the Solution – Improving Agriculture in Beira Read More »
Mozambique has been of the fastest growing economies in the world and has abundant natural resources such as forests, natural gas, coal and precious stones. Foreign investment in resource exploitation has seen significant and rapid inflow while laws and regulatory oversight of resources sometimes struggle to catch up. “During the years we have seen the …
LevasFlor- Social Impact Forestry!? What is that? Read More »
In Denmark, hundreds of thousands of bicycles are thrown away for scrap every year. In large parts of Mozambique there is a great need for cheap means of transport. Cousins Niels Bonefeld and Henrik Mortensen set out to do something about this when in 2003 they got the idea for Baisikeli. Baisikeli means bicycle in …
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Beira, the second largest City of Mozambique Beira with around half a million inhabitants produces more than 300 tons of waste every day but has a very precarious waste management system. A lot of the waste is dumped on a landfill or is just burned directly in the neighbourhood. 3R – Reduce Reuse Recycle, …
3R – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Waste: from Resource to Business Opportunity Read More »
What is Ideialab? “The ideialab was born as a dream. Throughout our professional journey we had the opportunity to travel around the country and visit places unknown to us until then, and in each trip we discovered a country full of opportunities that nobody took advantage of. And we wondered what was missing. We also …
The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários de Moçambique – ANJE), founded in February 2010, is a non-profit organization, formed by about 600 young entrepreneurs and beginners, from 18 to 35 years of age, whose goal is to promote youth entrepreneurship through business training and advocacy for a youth-friendly business environment. …
Innovative Business Association Commercial Associations are normally not the point of origin for an innovative start-up environment. Why should it be this one? Let´s start with the basic facts: ACB – The Beira Commercial Association is a non-profit business representation organisation whose main objective is to represent and help entrepreneurs in the Sofala province by …
ACB – Associação Comercial da Beira (Beira Commercial Association) Read More »
“YES, WE CARE initiates a network of young activists and social entrepreneurs from Europe and Africa. The project educates, liberates, and empowers the youth in their local communities through spreading social consciousness and development.“
