The humanitarian organization World Vision intends to direct an investment of more than two million dollars a year, over the next three years (2023-2025), to child protection and natural disaster mitigation programs in the Maganja da Costa district, Zambezia province.

The organization's representative in that district, Anivaldo José, said that the investment will cover areas of economic and spiritual development, as well as nutrition and health.

Maganja da Costa is a new front opened by this humanitarian organization, whose start-up was preceded by a diagnosis aimed at designing the type of intervention.

From this exercise, it was found that half of the 420,000 inhabitants, among children and adults, still do not have civil registration, which compromises access to basic rights, including education.

In the child protection component, for example, it is planned to register 9,500 children over the next four years, of which 2,000 will be registered this year.

This activity has recently begun with the training of forty notificators of vital events, with the aim of making the civil registry more comprehensive.

A child protection committee will be created in this district, involving the Public Prosecutor's Office and other Administration of Justice institutions and partners, with the aim of reducing the distance between communities and registration services.

The program also provides for capacity building of local risk reduction committees for natural disaster mitigation.

Anivaldo José pointed out that these committees will be equipped with response and mitigation plans, aimed at reducing losses and damages, including human and material. Maganja da Cos- ta has suffered, in the last five years, the effects of natural disasters that have resulted in deaths and loss of livelihood resources, leaving families more vulnerable.

Health committees will also be created to provide the communities with tools to fight malaria, diarrhea, and to reduce malnutrition that plagues mostly children, despite the district's existing agricultural potential.

In the economic development component, activities will focus on creating livelihoods in the communities through savings groups and developing income-generating activities.

As this is a humanitarian organization that brings together religious congregations, spiritual activity will also be implemented to inculcate values such as knowing how to be and to be in society, in order to strengthen mechanisms for healthy, peaceful, and orderly coexistence.

In the water and sanitation component, the organization, which already works in the districts of Morrumbala and Mocuba, has as a priority, in the next four years, the expansion of these services to the district of Maganja da Costa.