Besides main projects, AMOR has smaller projects that can interest you
Creative Solutions
Creation of clothes and fashion articles from waste
This project is directly linked with the anterior project of handicraft promotion, with a fashion approach and creation of clothes. The project aim to select 30 young in 10 schools of Maputo and Matola, from 16 to 23 years old with a strong interest about fashion and design, with special focus on women.
They will receive a short formation on sewing and cutting, which will allow them to participate on clothes creation contest with old material and wastes. In addition to theses youths, a group of 10 collectors could be included to participate to both, the formation and the contest.
At the end of the contest, a parade will be organized about the theme “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle more!” Each designer would have to find people among his entourage to participate to the parade. In that way, the project will promote an other type of fashion accessible for anyone and not only for models from magazines.
A special gift will be deliver to the bests designers, by a jury composed of fashion professionals. The press will be involved from the beginning to the end of the project, specially the TV, to get more visibility and arouse public expectation. A weekly projection on TV will be diffuse to follow the progression of each participant. The workers will also be filmed in order to promote these people who are often marginalized by the mozambican society. The documentary will be showed in the schools involved in the project « Recycle and Win » but more broadly, it will be used for spread the practical tools and the philosophy of 3R.
Specifically, the project pretends to:
• Stimulate youths and young women with creative ideas
• Provide tools to waste collectors for them to create new products out of recyclable materials
• Spread the 3R philosophy in the student community
• Reduce the amount of waste deposited at the municipal dump
• Promote a new Mozambican view on waste management and his workers, formal and informal
Creative solutions project sheet
Localisation
Cities of Maputo e Matola
Themes
Innovative and creative Solutions
Project’s cost
USD 14 050 (excluding the media production and diffusion by press, which will be possible though partnerships)
Duration
6 months
Purpose
Promote a new life style in Mozambican society though environmental, creative and stylish solutions
Goals
Promote new income generation measures and solutions, in order to reduce the waste problem
Activities
• Selection of 30 youths in 15 schools
• Selection of 10 collectors
• Selection of teachers and jurys
• Training in sewing and cutting
• Confection of clothes
• Realization of a parade and clothes presentation
• Awarding the bests designers
• Media coverage of the all process
• Production of movie/ documentary
Implementers and partners
• AMOR – Mozambican Association of Recycling
• Young and scavenger
• Social Communication organ
• Fashion Professional
Vision
The Mozambican society has a better vision and consideration for waste values and the workers of this area.
My Bio District
Green areas and leisure in the area Chota
Chota is a suburban neighborhood of Beira municipality has about 6,000 inhabitants and an area subject to flooding and erosion. 10 years ago most of the neighborhood practiced rice culture that use to feed the few residents that were existed. Today the old farms are land used by locals to build homes in areas parceled out by the municipality. What is striking on the large expansion area of Chota is the obvious lack of trees in the streets and green areas such as gardens and squares. But we all know the importance of green areas and trees for the population’s well-being as well as to fight against erosion.
This project has a one year duration and aims to, on one hand, create green areas of recreation (gardens) and on the other hand, to plant trees on roadsides, as including the component of recycling, using for that purpose different glass bottles, plastic (PET) and tires to delimit the area of plants and beautifying public spaces. The partnership with the City is very important because they manage and plan the urban development.
The purpose of this project is to work directly with associations or local committees to implement the activities. The group formed will collect and / or receive certain types of recyclable materials such as tires, debris etc. that they will turn into leisure parks accessories assisted on technical level by the staff of AMOR. Thus, recyclable material is used to produce briquettes and games for creating parks and recreational areas. The planting will also be done by the community itself, which will be for both the beneficiaries and implementers of the project. Like so, the local population will be able to choose and contribute on how to revitalize its own living space.
To achieve sustainability, we will enable the association or the local Committee on seedling production and planting for subsequent sale of the same community at an affordable price. Once trained, the Committees can continue to produce and sell the seedlings to other neighborhoods in this way diffusing urban forestry. Synergies are also possible with the installation of a “Ecoponto” or buckets in the project model ” AMOR buckets.”
During the project will be produced a procedure guide on planting and seedling management and on objects production for recreational facilities. Sponsors and partners may have their image in this material as well as in Camisetes the project. We are still looking for partners and sponsors for the start of its implementation in Beira and we expect the Chota District experience to lead the project extension in other districts of the cities and the country.
My bio district project sheet
Localisation
Cities of Beira-Bairro da Chota
Themes
• Urban planning, planting trees in the neighbourhood of Chota,
• Neighbourhood improvement with playing areas created by local groups,
• Creation of environmental sustainability in the neighbourhoods.
Project’s cost
USD 21 887
Duration
1 year
Purpose
Improve environmental and social conditions in an expanding neighbourhood.
Goals
Increase the population’s self-esteem with the environmental conditions improvement in the neighbourhood through the implementation of different actions for which Inhabitant will be actors and beneficiaries
Activities
• Desenho do plano de urbanização com o Município
• Urbanization plan drawing with the Municipality
• Identification of green spaces and recreational areas implementation with the community and the local municipality
• Plantation of 200 seedlings along the roads
• Irrigation seedlings during two months
• Spaces Organization gardens in squares
• Plantation of different plant species in the identified locations.
• Organize the collection of recyclable material
• Use recycled materials to produce accessories for leisure areas
• Monitoring the various implementation activities
Implementers and partners
• AMOR – Mozambican Association of Recycling
• Municipal Council of Beira (CMB)
Vision
• The green, healthy, and sustainable neighbourhood of Chota with a population aware of the importance of having more trees and green spots in their neighbourhoods;
• A private sector committed to environmental conservation.
Beira Recycle
Construction of infrastructures for communities made by waste
Beira Recycle project aim to transform recycling as a tool to built infrastructures that also allow new income generation for sustainable vulnerable groups; especially for women which are leading the family and young with delinquent risks. Those are the most affected people by urban poverty.
The project pretend to organized and promote recycling, starting with selecting collection of plastic bottles PET. Then, the plastic bottles filled with sand create blocks for construction of infrastructures, with a focus on Eco-point and offices. Every person selected to participate on the project will receive a training. The women, chiefs of family will be trained for the production of blocks, whereas the young people in delinquent risks will be trained on Eco-point construction, always made by waste. AMOR will train each group about the Eco-point management (no the same model as Ecopoint Network). This way, the Eco-point should allow purchases and collection of recyclable waste that could that then will be properly separated and sell to the firm already identified.
Following this process, on the group’s request and if it appears relevant, AMOR also could support these groups to organize themselves in an proper official association. It would be about giving responsibilities to these vulnerable groups and, like so, giving them the opportunity to be the first actors of their own project. At the same time, the whole community’s awareness will be raised to encourage people to collect the recyclable waste and to sell them to the Eco-points. The different awareness actions will involve the head of each neighborhood concerned by the project of Beira, as well as the Municipality in order to build a local support. As another way to increase the empowerment of the target group, members of the association will be built their capacities to write and managed projects and also to practice a rotative system of saving money, developed by ADEL Sofala (a local NGO in Beira). They will also be possible to build public toilets, managed by themselves.
We are making a focus on Beira because there is a daily production of almost 300 tons of waste, and has a very precarious waste management system mainly based on informal structure. It is especially true on the case of some district, as Munhava Central, where the access is very complicated. But the project could obviously be replicated in others parts of the country.
Beira Recycle Project sheet
Localisation
City of Beira, others urban and periphery urban areas
Themes
• Construction of infrastructures with recycling waste
• Recycling solid waste
• Support to vulnerable groups by new incomes generation
Project’s cost
USD 22.497 per group
Duration
1 year
Purpose
Improvements of social economic conditions of the vulnerable population though the construction of Eco-points made out recycling materials.
Goals
Reducing the environmental and social economic vulnerability of the people though recycling
Activities
• Groups selection
• Support group to constitute association with focus on waste management
• Selective collection and deposit of waste on Eco-points made by plastic bottle PET
• Creation of blocks from plastic bottle and sand
• Training of family’s chiefs and young people on delinquent risk for construction of infrastructures from recycling waste with focus plastic bottles.
• Monitoring of various implemented activities
Implementers and partners
• AMOR – Mozambican Association of Recycling
• Women and young
• Town Hall of Beira
Vision
• A Mozambican population is conscious of the advantages of recycling, and is using the existing infrastructure of recycling
• A civil society is valorising his waste
• The private sector which heard about the experience take hold on the idea and uses the blocks made with plastic bottle for ecological and cheap constructions