STRIVE Mozambique is one of four project/country initiatives that seek to reduce the vulnerability of children and youth through economic strengthening. Learn more about the project in
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Implementing Partners: Save the Children Federation, Inc.

Amount: $1,829,069

Purpose: Increase the income of vulnerable families in Mozambique’s Nampula Province through savings and income-generating activities, in order to improve the nutrition of children living in the province

Objectives:

• Strengthen the economic, business, and social resources of vulnerable households through Village Savings & Loans groups and rotating labor schemes
• Improve nutrition in children and entire families
• Increase the range and amount of food available to vulnerable families, especially through the “hungry season” from January to March

In Mozambique’s Nampula Province, the STRIVE project aims to improve child well-being by assisting households in increasing their income, establishing or increasing their savings, and strengthening their ties to other households and businesses in the community. It focuses on households headed by women and those having children under the age of five. STRIVE Mozambique works to improve and sustain the nutrition of such children and their families by expanding both the amount and quality of food they eat, particularly through the prolonged “hungry season.”

Photo: Lloyd Feinberg/USAID

The project has established and continues to work with more than 200 village savings and loan (VSL) groups in Nampula Province. It trains group participants and provides educational materials for them on business and finance. More than half of the groups have already begun to build their savings. At the same time, rotating labor groups, or Ajuda Mútua, work to increase the area of cultivation, harvesting, growing of vegetables, and grinding of maize into flour.

The STRIVE project works in tandem with another USAID-funded project, the SANA MYAP nutrition project, also implemented by Save the Children in the Nampula Province. The SANA MYAP project addresses food access and availability in the region, as well as the use of food. In turn, STRIVE works to ensure that households and communities have access to food.