Gorongosa News, Updates and Insights
UNICEF and Gorongosa National Park Workshop
Article by Samo Jossefa Samo; Photo Joao Fernandes Mozambique continues to face a series of socioeconomic challenges, natural shocks and public health emergencies that intensify the inequalities already present in the country’s growth pattern. In Sofala Province,...
Bringing added value closer to home with Gorongosa’s new coffee factory.
The investment by Kingdom of the Netherlands, Resilience and Right to Play will help local farmers increase productivity. Article by Samo Jossefa Samo The Gorongosa Restoration Project’s new coffee factory represents a crucial step forward in strengthening the coffee...
Gorongosa Restoration Project, UN-Habitat recognize OIKOS for community engagement work.
Text/fotos - UN Habitat Mozambique The Gorongosa Restoration Project and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) certify that the non-governmental organization OIKOS has been recognized for its excellence, performance and commitment to the best...
Mixed-material schools: An alterntive to conventional buildings in remote locations
(Abridged version of an article published in the newspaper Notícias, published in Maputo, December 3, 2025 edition) More than 15,000 children in six districts of Sofala province, surrounding Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, are leaving behind classes...
Mobile brigades transform access to health care for the communities near Gorongosa National Park
Text/Photos - Samo Jossefa Samo The mobile brigades, promoted by Gorongosa National Park, play a key role in providing health care to communities living around the Park's conservation area. These actions are carried out in close coordination with the District Health,...
From simple producer to coffee entrepreneur
A true story of transformation, hope, and agroforestry in the heart of the Gorongosa Mountains Text - Larissa Sousa; Photos - Samo Jossefa In 2019, Mr. Manuel Isaías Manejo, a coffee producer from the community of Dungama, in the district of Gorongosa, Sofala, took a...
PEACE project provincial meeting
Text/photos - Janado Nazare Cher On November 24, 2025, in the city of Beira, Sofala province, the provincial meeting of the PEACE (Peace through Economic Action and Community Empowerment) project took place. The project is funded by the Canadian High Commission and...
Cheringoma’s new Community Conservation Area Center opens
Text/photos by Larissa Sousa (Top photo - Conselho Executivo Provincial de Sofala.) November 20th will be recorded in Gorongosa's history with the inauguration of the Cheringoma Community Conservation Area Center (CACCC), an infrastructure that marks a new...
Monitoring and partnership trip by the Irish Embassy to Gorongosa
From November 10 to 13, 2025, the Governance Team of the Irish Embassy in Maputo—including Orla Kelly, Inocêncio Macuacua, Carmona Pola, Lídia Meque/Ruth Monteiro, Connor O’Loughlin/Dóris Uane, and Paul Rowley—undertook a monitoring and partnership mission to the...
Training in Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) at Gorongosa National Park, provided by the University of Pittsburgh (USA)
We are delighted to announce that, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh (USA) School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Gorongosa National Park recently held an important training course in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) from November 13 to 20, 2025....