Located in Southern Africa, Mozambique is a country with a population of 21.2 million. With an illiteracy rate of 61% and 74.1% of the population living under USD $2 a day poverty remains widespread in the country. The Hunger Project has been working in Mozambique since 2006 and is empowering 17,000 partners in three epicenter communities.
The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) microfinance program is designed to address the critical missing link for the end of hunger in Africa: the economic empowerment of
The epicenter community in Mozambique has developed a strategy for additional communal land with small plots for each cluster of villages to use as agricultural land to supply food in addition to that of the epicenter food bank.
Thousands of local residents join Hunger Project investors, Mozambique's former president, Global Board Member Joaquim Chissano, and Africa Prize Laureate Celina Cossa for the inauguration of the first epicenter in Mozambique.
