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Maria Deniasse, Sanga, Guro District, Mozambique
Maria Deniasse, her husband and two children were totally dependent on their harvest. “And when there was a bad harvest, we were very badly off,” she says. Maria has succeeded in lifting her family from this precarious existence. She now sells surplus beans, cassava and other produce from her family’s four fields and earns a monthly salary teaching adult literacy.
Azélia Bengala, Tambara District, Manica Province, Mozambique
The creation of a grain bank in the town of Nhacafula put an end to the exhausting ‘hungry season’ for Azélia Bengala. Every year, while waiting for the next harvest to ripen, Azélia’s family suffered hunger. Azélia spent so much time cultivating or searching for food that she had little time to look after herself and her family.
Dinis Maqui, Guro District, Manica Province, Mozambique
Of everything that Dinis Maqui saw and learned “the most important for me was to discover that I was a person!” Maqui, a 37-year-old father of eight, is the president and community agent of the Mozambican Guru district community association “Kumuda” – which means Awaken in the Nyungue language.
Alberto Bunai, Tambara District, Manica Province, Mozambique
Goats, very important to the food security in the Tambara district where the dry climate is bad for agriculture, used to be left to forage for food and water on their own. If they became sick no treatment was provided and only some would survive.
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