O atendimento a criança baseado na comunidade em Moçambique - análise do projecto patrocínio á criança no regulado de Majaua - Posto Administrativo de Derre/Morrumbala/Zambézia

Abstract

Mozambique is a country that, right after independence in 1975, was plunged into a conflict that would last 16 years. The development perspectives at first became null because their development plans were not followed through. The social implications of this conflict and especially in relation to the child are not given. Many children were orphaned, others simply lost due to armed conflict. The government policy following independence was to place these children in institutions or orphanages. The government's capacity to respond in institutions began to be challenged, for different reasons, at least from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. early 1980s. It was up to the government to take social responsibility for the “helpless child” phenomenon, which until the end of the 1980s was estimated at around 250,000.

The government's policy regarding assistance to children in difficult situations was conditioned to factors related to war, hunger, PRE and consequently the increase of children in difficult situations. Thus, the government began to advocate community-based, family-based care as a way of responding to the implications of the factors already mentioned. This is the thesis that is supported in this work, seeking to analyze a community-based care project, funded by World Vision-USA called “Child Sponsorship” (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)