Rory and Joana on Ilha

Joana and Rory are volunteers with a non-profit organisation called TechnoServe, based in Mozambique, working on promoting tourism for a bijou undiscovered island called Ilha de Mocambique. Our role is to develop a plan to attract the right kind of tourism and development which will protect the island's exceptional architecture, and create wealth for the local community... and eat lobster and sunbathe !

Tuesday, December 26, 2006


This is Muarapo (pink t shirt) and his family. They live beside the main square with bandstand, visible on Google Earth. Their house is very ruined and this room has no roof at all. Muarapo buys fish from the fishermen and sells in the market, thus earning the money for everyone you see, his dad lives and works 2 hours away in Nacala. I've been trying to get him to save money, open a bank account etc, but only really succeeded in lending him the equivalent of £4, with a fish every so often as interest.

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