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Conservation
and Education Initiative
Our initial project is the first component
of a larger mission to support goals
of conservation, education and economic
advancement of the rural Mozambican
villages in the Niassa Province. This
conservation step will, in turn, support
a K-8 school to begin the formal education
of the children in the area. It is estimated
that 95% of the population in this province
is illiterate. There are few schools
in the area and those in existence are
often understaffed with class sizes
sometimes over 100 pupils per teacher.
MCO’s primary goals are to build schools,
find and hire competent educators and
supply students with books and supplies.
The first phase of the MCO plan is to
raise enough money to begin building
a school to support K-12 primary education
of children in an area within walking
distance from the villages. MCO plans
to hire the local indigenous peoples
to clear the land, construct and maintain
the building, and support the school
as it grows. We envision that these
schools will educate the children of
and in addition to the normal curriculum
will teach the students how to conserve
their local environment. In this way,
MCO hopes to stem the tide not only
of illiteracy, but also of the dependence
on poaching and environmental degradation
to survive.
We believe that by empowering the local
people with knowledge of conservation,
protection of flora and fauna, and providing
the training necessary to accomplish
the task, MCO will create jobs for the
immediate populations and for future
generations.
The second phase of the MCO plan is
to offer higher education scholarships
to qualifying students to study at home
or abroad so that they can return to
the province and continue to improve
it as professionals in education, engineering,
farming, and tourism. In this way, the
overall plan will continue in years
to come.
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