VIDA - A2E Fund

VIDA is implementing a project to transform the Djabula Community Development Center (CDCD - Centro de Desenvolvimento Comunitário de Djabula) into an Environmental Experimentation Centre and new reference in agroforest systems and reforestation. Nowadays, Matutuine is expose to severe climate change and year after year they have registered a decrease of rain during the rainy season, which affects directly the agriculture, the main activity for the local families.

VIDA - Voluntariado Internacional para o Desenvolvimento Africano

Mozambique, Djabula community, Matutuine District

In this project, VIDA intends to improve the CDCD condition to achieve the objective defined. With a solar panel system, they will install a drop by drop irrigation system in the forest nursery, giving the possibility to improve the efficiency of water use and production of native trees for reforestation and food security. On the other hand, with access to energy they can offer more and diverse information, by using documentaries projection during community workshops. Also gives them the possibility of permanent access to information through computers. With energy at the multipurpose building, the workers (artisans) can use electronic tools to improve their production and increase their value.

VIDA also intends to reactivate the Honey House, where local producers can bring their honeycombs for a semi-industrial extraction, giving them more income than using the traditional methods. 

Expected outputs:

• Increase of plant production at forest nursery
• Water Pumping
• Increase production of honey
• Access to information about forestation, agroforest, systems and food security

Status May 2021:

• Installation of the solar panel system at the Centro de Informação and at the Multipurpose building of CDCD 
• improvement of the rainwater collection system
• Rehabilitation of the tank bases and installation of 4 new water tanks
• Improvement of the forest nursery and the drop by drop irrigation system
• Workshop on Natural Resources Management for Teachers and Technicians from the Local Agriculture Services held
• Honey Production Training for beekeepers conducted
• Development of Marca Djabula communication strategy
• Marca Djabula's artisans received several trainings to improve their products (basketry, crochet, sewing, dyeing, paper)
• Execution rate: 100%