Life Child Gives Back is an initiative designed to support communities by addressing emergency needs and creating opportunities for future development. It aims to provide humanitarian aid, social support, and educational programs, such as training literacy teachers to empower vulnerable populations. This effort enhances the overall well-being of families and communities served by Life Child.
Life Child impacts children, families, communities, and nations by creating sustainability through Education, Health and Nutrition, and Social and Spiritual Development.
Life Child Gives Back was established as a vehicle for Life Church and Life Child to give back to the community in specific ways that can meet emergency needs and open new fields for the future. For example, Life Church and Life Child have been instrumental in supporting the thousands of internally displaced people who fled the violence in the North of Mozambique through a wonderful partnership with Dignidad ONGD from Spain.
Recently, the training of literacy teachers in the program Pueblos has been taking place, where they will teach the vulnerable in the resettlement camps to read and write in their mother tongues in the district of Montepuez in Cabo Delgado. We have also been assisting the people with much-needed humanitarian aid and social support.
Life Sustainability is a division of Life Child established to create sustainable income for Life Child activities through setting up and operating profitable ventures. However, beyond that, an essential part of the vision of Life Sustainability is to provide career opportunities for people in the communities we operate in and, over time, even for some of the children growing up out of the Life Child programs.
The biggest Life Sustainability project is a farming operation in Mozambique. We have purchased two farms of 150 hectares each near Quelimane. The main crop that is currently being grown is Moringa – a tree that provides super-food grade nutrient products in the form of powders and oils made from its leaves and seeds. The Peace School in Quelimane has been growing Moringa for several years, and we are building on this experience. Clearing and planting these trees is already well underway, with 55,000 trees being planted on about 20 hectares.
Life Sustainability, a division of Life Child, aims to generate sustainable income through profitable ventures while providing career opportunities for local communities and children in Life Child programs. The primary project is a farming operation in Mozambique, focusing on growing Moringa for nutrient products, with 55,000 trees planted. Profits from the farms will support Life Child’s operations, and a sewing school has been established to teach skills and business basics, enhancing future opportunities for participants.
Initially, we are doing primary processing – preparing bulk Moringa that will be exported to manufacturers of Moringa products in the rest of the world. The farms are expected to become profitable by 2027, whereafter, a portion of the profits will be reinvested to keep growing the business. The balance will be paid out to Life Child to assist in covering their operational costs. We also have been given several industrial sewing machines. With these, a school has been set up where we have taught people to sew and the basics of running a small business.
We are excited about the potential and opportunities that Life Sustainability will be creating for us in the future.
