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August 4, 2023
Here's Priscilla from Zimbabwe being taught a game by our children in Chigodole, Mozambique.
July 9, 2022
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Crisis struck 14-year-old Bento’s* family in 2019 when his grandmother had a stroke resulting in a long-term disability. Shortly after this, the family was identified by local Care Workers as among the most vulnerable in their community and were invited to attend the Care Point. The children found security in knowing that they would receive a hot and nutritious meal daily, and that they would no longer be turned away from school as the Chigodole Community Based Organisation was helping to provide the necessary school fees, uniforms and books.
Today, Bento knows that he is loved and cared for by the Care Workers who know his name and take the time to understand his and his family's challenges. Flora, one of the Care Workers, lives close to Bento. She regularly visits him and his family in their home. Flora spends time with them, listening to their burdens, helping around their home and doing what she can to help support the family. – Chigodole Community, Mozambique
January 7, 2022
11-year-old Antonio* grew up with a rare undiagnosed medical condition. When he first started coming to the Care Point in Chigodole, he was quiet and disliked playing with the other children. “Why would the children and the Care Workers at the Care Point be any different than others in the community?” Antonio would think. Thankfully, the Care Point in Chigodole is a place of love and acceptance for children like Antonio. Here, he has made many friends who are accepting of his situation and don’t treat him any differently. He has started going to school more regularly with the friends he has made at the Care Point who he knows he can trust to accept him, no matter what. - Chigodole Community, Mozambique
October 16, 2021
Over the last year, the local Hands at Work team in Chimoio, Mozambique, have been building a close relationship with the clinic in Chimoio. Recently, a team of nurses from the clinic visited the community of Chigodole to provide treatment for our children who have been struggling with their eyesight. Maximising their time in the community, the nurses also administered deworming medication for the children, which ensures that they are receiving the proper nutrients from their daily meal.
July 24, 2021
Chigodole Community, Mozambique
For 10-year-old Sofia* the Care Point is a place where she has the freedom to be a child and play with other children, free from the responsibility of cooking and caring for her family. Care Worker Tina has been intentional about building a close relationship with Sofia and her siblings, and when her mother is ill, Sofia knows that she can count on Tina to help look after her family.
April 17, 2021
One of the youth in Chigodole Community, Mozambique, proudly displays his colouring sheet representing the story of Paul and the shipwreck from Acts 27.
Across Africa, these colouring sheets are being used as a visual representation of stories in the Bible being told by the local Hands at Work teams.
February 5, 2021
Lacking a mother figure at home, Ruth’s Care Workers in Chigodole, Mozambique, have taken on that responsibility and are committed to being the loving maternal figures that she desperately needs.
April 20, 2020
16-year-old Joseph* took it upon himself to try and find a solution in helping to protect the children who attend the Care Point in Chigadole, Mozambique. Each day children come here in small groups to receive what is often their only meal that day.
He arrived at the Care Point early and used the materials he could find to create small benches, metres apart, so that the other children could sit down at a safe distance whilst eating their meal.
Joseph is known for being creative and willing to serve in any way that he can, to support the Care Workers who have made the Care Point a place where he feels valued and appreciated.
Join us in continuing to pray for the most vulnerable families and for children, like Joseph, who responsibly and creatively take action in caring for their communities.
January 26, 2020
In Chigodole, Mozambique, a lack of consistent education is a challenge and many children drop out of school. Young girls, in particular, are left with little hope, as many will be offered up for marriage before they finish school: https://www.handsatwork.org/chigodole-community
November 17, 2019
In Chigodole Community, #Mozambique, there is a Primary Caregiver who, for many years, had struggled with the abuse of alcohol, and was known throughout her community. During a Maranatha Workshop in Chigodole, she came to know Christ and made a commitment to stop drinking. Since that time, she has not had a single drop of alcohol and is committed to following Jesus and caring for her grandchildren.
August 21, 2018
Officially at the beginning of April 2018, 50 of the most vulnerable children began coming to the Chigodole Care Point in Mozambique daily, where they now receive a hot and nutritious meal from 18 Care Workers who are committed to caring for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. However, the care preceded this date when the Care Workers, together with the Hands at Work local office team in Chimoio, were able to help many of the children start school in January, marking the beginning of a new school year.
June 7, 2018
"Come sisters and brothers, let’s worship together."
The Care Workers and Primary Caregivers gather together for a time of worship in Chigodole Community, Mozambique.
May 19, 2018
"After orientation I had the privilege of going to Mozambique. The best part for me was to visit the community that my church in Germany is supporting through our partnership with Hands at Work. Since I arrived in Mozambique, I wanted to visit Chigodole Community, which started feeding the most vulnerable children at the beginning of February. When I went the first time, I fell in love with this community. They are caring for 50 children but there are many children in need of care. There are big needs and many of the children do not have proper clothing. It is a tough place but to see the faces of the children and the light in their eyes when they play and sing is amazing. It teaches me about how I want to live. No matter how hard, tough and hopeless the situation is, these children do not stop laughing.”
Vicky Volker, International Volunteer (Germany), reflects on the past month that she has been in Mozambique.
April 10, 2018
“While I was in Mozambique, I had the opportunity to be a part of the expansion into our new community, Chigodole. One of the boys that I met, Patrick*, comes from a family with six siblings. His mother lives with them but she has a mental disability. He has two older brothers who are out looking for work to help support the family. One of the younger boys was wearing a skirt because the family had no other clothes. I pushed to visit his home because I saw the wound on his hand which had lots of bugs and dirt in it. I helped to clean the wound and show his mother the easiest way to keep it clean. It was unbelievably tragic because even after he had been cleaned up, the clothes that he was wearing were soiled and dirty.”
Jackie Okinda (African Volunteer, #Kenya) reflects on a home that she visited while she was in Mozambique for three months, encouraging and supporting the Hands at Work local office team in Chimoio.
Patrick is 1 of 53 children attending the Chigodole Care Point where he receives a hot and nutritious meal daily. Since he started coming to the Care Point, he received a new set of clothes. Pray for a continued transformation in his life as he is loved and cared for by the local volunteer Care Workers.
December 29, 2019
Cyclone Idai caused widespread food insecurity, with families losing their entire crop harvest. In response, Hands at Work mobilised communities like Matsinho in Mozambique – the hardest hit – to establish community gardens with fast-growing crops. In a time of mass chaos with many people feeling paralysed by the enormity of the destruction, this community garden provided a source of hope! A community meeting was called for Hands at Work to cast the vision to local people, and land was offered by a local church leader. A written agreement was drafted and put into place which specified the terms of the garden, including expectations of input and how the harvest would be divided. Since the garden in Matsinho Community was planted, two successful bean crops have been harvested and apportioned accordingly.
With remaining funds from the garden in Matsinho, two additional gardens were also planted in the communities of Chigodole and Macadeira, in Mozambique. Potatoes and cabbages were successfully planted and harvested in Chigodole, and in Macadeira, potatoes and green vegetables were planted. These gardens provided the local Care Workers, Primary Care Givers, church leaders and children with the means for nutritious food to help combat serious food insecurity. An encouraging consequence was also an increased sense of unity built up amongst local people in the hardest-hit regions; people working together, despite their loss, to create a means of survival for their future.