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To respond to the crisis, ADRA will distribute hygiene kits containing masks, hand sanitizers and liquid soap to vulnerable families and individuals in the southern part of the country. Each kit includes a bucket with a tap to create a simple hand-washing station. Trained ADRA volunteers, including the health ministry’s directors of local Seventh-day Adventist churches, will share accurate information about basic sanitation practices and COVID-19 prevention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Boane district, the project will target 500 vendors who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 as they interact with the public. In the Matutu\u00edne district, ADRA will assist 500 of the most vulnerable households, especially those headed by women or children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADRA\u2019s support goes well beyond meeting the immediate need for better sanitation. ADRA will help the vendors find alternative ways of doing business to minimize their exposure to COVID-19, such as operating from home rather than in public markets, and will train them in new ways of generating income, especially mask making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To improve nutrition for the 500 vulnerable households, ADRA will help them establish home gardens using climate-smart agriculture. The families will receive startup vegetable seed kits and will learn to grow crops such as pumpkins that are resilient to droughts and provide high nutritional value with minimum time and labor requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur goal is to have 500 home gardens growing and producing by the end of the year,\u201d says Karuma. \u201cWith ADRA\u2019s assistance, these families will be better equipped to feed and support themselves even after the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Educating the Public About COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA is also launching a public information campaign in the Boane and Matutu\u00edne districts to educate the districts\u2019 three million citizens on the best ways to protect themselves against COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBoane and Matutu\u00edne are remote, and the people do not have easy access to correct information about COVID-19 prevention and vaccination because it is not available in their native language or because they have low literacy levels,\u201d says Karuma. \u201cADRA is working to fill these significant knowledge gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n About half of people in Mozambique do not speak or understand Portuguese, the country\u2019s official language. The literacy rate is only 28 percent for women and 60 percent for men, according to USAID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To reach these underserved populations, ADRA will distribute information through audio messages in the local languages, Xangana and Ronga. The messages will be broadcast on radio and will be readily accessible on people\u2019s cell phones through the country\u2019s free 3-2-1 information service. ADRA will also distribute information in public places using illustrated posters and pamphlets that can be understood even by people who are unable to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cADRA\u2019s awareness campaign focuses on maximizing chances for the most vulnerable to access the COVID vaccine, clarifying myths and misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and helping people make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccination and prevention,\u201d says Karuma. <\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA has been working throughout the pandemic to protect communities in Mozambique from COVID-19. From June to September 2020, ADRA distributed hygiene kits to 620 households in peri-urban areas of Mozambique\u2019s capital, Maputo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuring this time of crisis, ADRA is coming together with volunteers from local churches and with our partners in government and education to slow the spread of the virus and help needy families cope with the impact of the pandemic,\u201d says David Masinde, country director for ADRA in Mozambique. \u201cWe are seeking to be the hands and feet of Jesus as we minister to our communities in these difficult days.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA, the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the world and has assisted millions of families during the pandemic. ADRA\u2019s emergency relief activities include distributing food and other essentials to people in need, providing personal protective equipment and medical supplies to hospitals serving vulnerable communities, and educating the public on combating the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sobre a ADRA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Ag\u00eancia Adventista de Desenvolvimento e Assist\u00eancia \u00e9 o bra\u00e7o humanit\u00e1rio internacional da Igreja Adventista do S\u00e9timo Dia, servindo em 118 pa\u00edses. O seu trabalho fortalece as comunidades e muda vidas em todo o mundo, proporcionando desenvolvimento comunit\u00e1rio sustent\u00e1vel e ajuda em caso de cat\u00e1strofe. O objetivo da ADRA \u00e9 servir a humanidade para que todos possam viver como Deus pretende. Saiba mais em ADRA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Enquanto Mo\u00e7ambique chora centenas de mortes recentes devido \u00e0 COVID-19, a Ag\u00eancia Adventista de Desenvolvimento e Assist\u00eancia (ADRA) est\u00e1 a ajudar 1.000 das fam\u00edlias mais vulner\u00e1veis do pa\u00eds a protegerem-se contra o v\u00edrus e a manterem os seus meios de subsist\u00eancia apesar das perturba\u00e7\u00f5es da pandemia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[785,284,951,614,558,11,1,336],"tags":[741,774,1147,690],"class_list":["post-21676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-health","category-mozambique","category-news","category-nutrition","category-press-release","category-uncategorized","category-wash","tag-adventist-church","tag-covid-19","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21676"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45767,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions\/45767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/adra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-Mozambique-Rosita-Chilundo-1024x683.jpg\")