Mozambique Survivors Community Garden

 Mozambique Survivors Community Garden started with three humanists in Cabo Delgado, a province terrorized by the Islamist group Al-Shabab. From left to right they are Alif Eka (19 years old), Badru Yassine (21 years old), and Altaf Baba (24 years old), .

Twelve additional humanists have since joined the group.

Humanist Mutual Aid Network initially sent the Mozambique Survivors Community Garden $180. The money was divided and delivered to the ten oldest women in the village (see below).

After that we sent an additional $300 - that was divided into small packages and given to 175 villagers. (see photo at the top of this page)

Cabo Delgado is an dangerous and impoverished area, due to ongoing terrorist activities. Mozambique, in general, is one of the world’s poorest nations.

Report August 31, 2024

“Our garden projects of yams and cassava are a tremendous success, we are expecting to harvest them in November at the peak of the dry season. 

Our harvest will be mainly shared between our mutual aid members, and the rest of the community especially the impoverished. Old people will be greatly considered. 

Money is also made from the crops, we cannot finish eating the tubers of yam and cassavas alone, we will sell some at the market for people who have money to buy and for intending farms who wish to plant these crops  next year. 

Garden and farm projects can only be done in the planting seasons and that runs through January till June, but there is however a proposal about farming that we will submit soon, we need to construct yams and cassava barns to store our harvested crops in november.

Aside that for the rest of the year, we are going to be submitting health care delivery proposals as there are rampant diseases at this time, for September, we would like to submit a proposal of purchasing mosquito nets and mosquito repellants to up to 50 humanist members and their extended families.

Land is a bit expensive for rent and to purchase because we do not have a good land reform act, they are just overtaken naturally by anyone whose family got there first and for you to have a share of it you must rent or buy it from an original owner who preoccupied it first. For the one we use we rented it for $350.

All our projects are shared first with the humanist group then we extend it to the whole community. We all work equally hard on the garden as what we have are simple farming tools that require really hard man power to use. 

We are primarily Farmers and we make our money from planting and processing food crops, our women however, also knit, weave, and sow, and create all forms of fashion items.”