Welcome!

Welcome to The Dream Project’s new blog! We will do our best to keep this site updated and help you to get to know our children and staff a little better.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with The Dream Project (or Projecto Sohno as it’s known in Mozambique, a Portuguese speaking country), I’ll do my best to give you some background.

We have a Center in Pemba, Mozambique, which is called Projecto Sonho. Projecto Sonho is trying to be a light to our community. We help around 15 children by paying for their schooling and educational needs. We work with five families in our community offering things like food assistance or helping them purchase materials to make items for sale. Widows head four of the families that we help. The other family is lead by two brothers that are about 18 and 20, for many years they took care of their dying mother, who passed away about 2 years ago.

Mozambique had a civil war that lasted about 20 years and while it came to an end in the early 1990’s, that in combination with the AIDS epidemic has made a lasting effect. It’s almost as if there is a generation missing, grandparents are raising children and many widows are left without any training to fend for themselves.

In addition to reaching out into our community, we also house 12 boys in Projecto Sonho. This part of our ministry is called Our Father’s House (I’m not sure what that is in Portuguese). The 12 boys who live with us are all either orphaned or are considered vulnerable.

Some of the children we work with. 

I will do my best to tell you just what life is like here in Mozambique. Anytime I use personal information, I will change the persons name and not post any images. If you are a sponsor and would like to know the name I assign to the child or staff member you sponsor, please comment with your email or send a private message to sponsorship@thedream-project.org.

If you are not a sponsor but are interested in becoming one, please send me a message as well =)

We have a few different types of Sponsorship.

Child sponsorship starts at $40 per month. Most children have more than one sponsor; we determine the number of sponsors based on what it cost Projecto Sonho to support each child for a month. For example a child that lives in our house costs generally cost more than a child who lives with their family. With Child Sponsorship, we ask that you write your child a few times a year and send them pictures of you and your family (the kids LOVE getting pictures!). Letters and pictures can either be mailed to our office or emailed.

Staff Sponsorship can be for any amount. You can sponsor a specific person or a department. Such as Administration, Live-in Staff, Music, Art, Cook, or Night Guard; or one of our 4 Mozambican staff who are trying to raise support. (For those of you who do everything online, these 4 guys have Facebook and so it’s a good opportunity to make a “friend” on the other side of the world!)

Zito is a local artist. He teaches the children how to make cards,
necklaces and other items that are commonly sold in Moz.

If you have any question please ask. If you have any message for the children or staff, please comment and I will do my best to pass your message along.

Thanks for reading!

Amanda (Nichols) Macarrao

Communication Liaison