Gorongosa News, Updates and Insights
Gorongosa Project Strategic Plan
1. We co-manage Gorongosa National Park with the Government of Mozambique. This fact is our guiding principle as we decide who we are, what we do and where we do it. We use a dual approach of Human Development and Conservation, which are implemented simultaneously in...
Distance learning program allows students to continue secondary school studies.
The future of girls and boys going on to secondary school, continuing their studies and becoming the next generation of leaders for Mozambique just got brighter. Many local students find it difficult to go on or complete secondary school because the schools are far...
Clothing donations benefit local children.
Girls and boys between the ages of 3 to 12 years of age in the communities of Nhandar, Nhanguco, Nhambita and Vinho are sporting new school clothes thanks to a partnership between an international clothing organization and LAM...
June workshop supports women in conservation.
Women, striving to support conservation strategies as a way of ensuring future generations benefit from the existence of protected areas, met in Gorongosa Park this June. Twelve women from different universities in Mozambique spent six days in the Park, gaining new...
International Children’s Day – a day for recognizing the rights of children.
Children's Day is celebrated in Mozambique on June 1 every year, creating unique and remarkable moments for the children who celebrate the day. This year children from the communities of Nhambita and Vinho spent International Children’s Day expressing their joy,...
Environmental Youth Clubs spend World Biodiversity Day in Gorongosa Park.
Environmental Club students from the Vila de Gorongosa primary school spent World Biodiversity Day, visiting Gorongosa National Park, touring the E.O. Wilson Laboratory and spending time with staff from the Park Conservation sector. Gorongosa Park Administrator Pedro...
Local schools benefit from gender equality training.
Primary school teachers in communities near Gorongosa National Park are now trained how to use sensitive and gender-transforming teaching techniques as a way to protect girls from inequality in the schools. Gender inequality is still an issue for some schools where...
“Model Moms” teach new mothers – and fathers – how to care for newborn babies.
Gorongosa Park’s 145 Model Moms and 21 leaders from the districts of Gorongosa, Cheringoma and Muanza are receiving special training in screening for child malnutrition and referral methods for treatment in health facilities. Child malnutrition is an extremely...
Gorongosa Restoration Project starts its first pre-school program.
More than 210 children between the ages of 4 and 5 years old from Nhambita and Vinho, are the first to enroll in the Little School Club, a new education program that prepares pre-school age children for elementary school. Fourteen facilitators, trained and equipped...
ANAC Director General Celmira da Silva pays working visit to Gorongosa National Park.
Celmira da Silva, Director General of the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC), and Pedro Estêvão Muagura, Administrator of Gorongosa National Park. Director General Celmira da Silva of the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) paid a...