In this course students participate in an orphanage re-building and rural home-building, sports development, island and river exploration, and cultural history.
Students work on the coastal village of Vilanculos, a short boat ride from the World Heritage Site Bazaruto Islands. The village of Vilanculos was devastated by the cyclone Favio in February 2007 and since the it is being rebuilt.
Moreover, students participate in a soccer-coaching clinic with the local children’s teams the organization our students work with supports. In addition to this, students study the turbulent history of Mozambique and its numerous settlers from the Arab commercial and slave-trading settlements to the Portuguese, to the British, to the war and today.
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