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Service learning is an educational activity where participants contribute their time and services to their community and make a positive impact on their neighborhood, their city, their country, or the world we share. Service learn-ing projects benefit both participants and beneficiaries.

Beneficiaries grow as we work together to renovate buildings, paint walls, build furniture, provide equipment, and restore structures. In turn, they inter-act and forge bonds with us as we teach and learn from each other.

Participants in the program at AISM such as students, parents, partners, and teachers learn about themselves, their status, and their role in building a bet-ter world, as well as become aware of the difficult circumstances in which others live.

Our aim is to cultivate a culture of service in our students, in our beneficiar-ies and in their communities. At AISM, we work in partnership with local and international organizations to expose our students to diverse realities and op-portunities. Although our main objective is educational, we also strive to build meaningful and sustainable partnerships and capacity for partner-organiza-tions. We hope you will join us on this Journey.

The partners mentioned in this brochure require a range of resources. We in-vite your company to collaborate with us and make a difference in our com-munity through these projects. We will ensure that your company benefits by displaying your logo in all publications and communications related to our Service Learning Program. Also, if you provide roll-up banners, we will place them in the AISM lobby for further visibility. Our students visit the various projects every month and assist with physical improvement, education and other activities needed. Your staff is invited to join us on these visits.

We have listed the needs identified by each project. You may be interested in providing the materials, services or only some items on the list. Any support will be very much appreciated!

What is Service Learning?

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Polana Caniço Community SchoolThis community school is part of the Mozambican education network and provides schooling for students in grades 1-5. As a community school, it does not receive any financial help from the government beyond training for teachers and administrators. Families of children who attend this school pay token fees (MT 200 a month), which is put toward employing teachers. Its governance is guided by a school council that con-sists of parents, school staff, community members and authorities.

Established in 1995 at the initiative of the neighboring community, this community school received land from the municipality and all authorizations from the Ministry of Culture. Currently, the school serves a total of 550 students in three shifts, including an adult education class, attended mostly by women. When AISM first connected with the school in 2010, the classrooms were built from caniço straw; there was no toilet, proper equipment or furniture. In two years of partnership, we built two classrooms and a communal toilet, in addition to providing training for teachers and interactions for the students.

Current Needs:• Build 3 more classrooms and an administration building, enabling the school to add classes beyond 5th grade – The building would be simple in construction, 7x4m, tin roof, with two windows. Architectural plans will be available in August 2012, kindly provided by an AISM parent.• Water connection – piping, elevated tank, pressure pump, and counter.• Energy connection and set up – pre-paid counter, wiring, and lighting.• Furniture for 5 classrooms – 5 blackboards, 5 pin boards, 5 clocks, 5 lockable metal bookshelves, and 100 two-seater desks. • 2 computers for the administration.

If you are interested in helping this school, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official sponsor by including it on this page.

Address: Rua do Golfe, 1111 – Bairro Polana Caniço B

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Rainha da Paz Community SchoolFounded in 1999, Rainha da Paz is another community school which receives scant government funding. The school is architecturally sound with three well-built classrooms and an administration block. The school serves a student body of 225 students from grades 1 to 7. Ten teachers, plus 5 non-teaching staff run the school. Thus far, AISM has improved the school’s space by paint-ing murals and constructing a tree swing. Activities focus on interaction be-tween students in classes (computer, English), sports and games, and training for the teachers. We also encouraged the building of toilets for which plans are ready and construction is authorized.

Current Needs: • Building toilets – 4x3m, two toilets with a sink. • Building two more classrooms to enable the school to provide secondary education – The building would be simple in construction, 7x4m, tin roof, with two windows. Architectural plans available in August/2012, kindly donated by an AISM parent.• Water connection – piping, elevated tank, pressure pump, and counter.• Painting of 4 classrooms (interior and exterior) – 50 liters of paint, 10 rollers, and 10 paintbrushes.• 5 computers for teachers and training.

If you are interested in helping this school, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official spon-sor by including it on this page.

Address: Rua Carlos Cardoso, 409 – Polana Caniço A, Q1, Maputo

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Special Education School #1 (Deaf School)Founded in 1988, the school is part of the government’s efforts to provide deaf or hearing disabled children with an education. It has 170 students enrolled in kindergar-ten to grade 7. After grade 7, the students enter the conventional education system. AISM has been working with the Deaf School’s children in activities which include ar-tistic interactions and setting up an atelier to produce artwork.

Current Needs: • Building toilets – 4x3m, two toilets plus a sink.• Shade shelter in the school field – a metallic structure with netting on top, 8x10m.• 2 water dispensers with filters.• Purchase of tools for the workshop – 10 cutting pliers, 10 pressure pliers, 10 saws, 10 hammers, and 10 box cutters.• Sponsoring a year’s worth salary for an art educator to be based at the school.

If you are interested in helping this school, please contact Mr. Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official sponsor by including it on this page.

Address: Av. Salvador Allende, 1451 – Bairro Central, Maputo

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Project PurposeSince 2001, Project Purpose has been working with girls on the streets of Ma-puto, Mozambique to show them that they have value and purpose. Currently, they work with over 40 different women and their children who are victims of the world of prostitution and human trafficking. The project provides homes and food for the children of these women.

AISM has been associated with Project Purpose for a year, to transform their venue into a comfortable home through gardening, painting, and animal hus-bandry (rabbits and poultry). Interaction with the children is a focus of this project.

Current Needs: • Construct a jungle gym for the field – Plans are available and should include the purchase of swings and playground toys.• Educational center building – built with local rustic materials, 5x4 meters.• Educational center supplies – black board, 20 desks with chairs, stationery (pencils, pens, coloring pencils, paper, etc.).• Gardening – new seedlings and gardening tool kits.

If you are interested in helping this project, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official spon-sor by including it on this page.

Address: Rua Estaio Dias, 68 – Chamanculo "A", Cidade da Matola

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Livro AbertoLivro Aberto (‘Open Book’), is a library and literacy organization founded here in 2007. Their vision is of a reading culture in Mozambique in which all people are inspired and able to inquire, innovate and achieve through books and lit-eracy. They implement unique strategies to achieve enjoyment and empower-ment through literacy for all children:

Current Needs: • A Maputo based library and literacy center providing resources and special-ized workshops for children.• A mobile library and workshop curriculum which benefits children in com-munities who have no access to the services, and which will bring joy through books. For a year, AISM has worked with Livro Aberto by assisting with their reading activities. We have also built several bookshelves in our Design Tech-nology classes.• Sponsoring 10 Literacy coaches’ salaries @ US 2.500 a year each.• 1 Photocopy machine.• 1 heavy-duty color printer.• Sponsoring a year’s worth of healthy snacks for the children (peanuts, rai-sins, fruits and so on) @ US 1.000 a year.If you are interested in helping this project, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official spon-sor by including it on this page.

Address: Rua da Argélia, 293 – Polana, Maputo

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Horizonte Azul AssociationHorizonte Azul (Blue Horizon) is a social and cultural association founded in 2005. Its focus is on preparing children for society, through the promotion and protection of children’s rights. They work mainly with orphans, most of whom are girls. Their site serves as a day care center, where children do artis-tic, cultural and educational activities that protect them from social risks they would otherwise face. They currently work with 220 children of varying ages. Unlike other organiza-tions, Horizonte Azul follows the lives of their beneficiaries’ lives after age 18. AISM has recently started to work with this organization.

Current Needs: • Building toilets – purchase and installation of 4x3m, two toilets + sink.• Income generating sewing project – purchase of 3 industrial sewing ma-chines, 2 standard sewing machines, 4 sewing tables with chair, and sewing training. • Income-generating cooking project – purchase of 3 gas-stoves with gas bot-tles, 15 assorted pots, and kitchenware. • Income-generating photocopying project – purchase of a used photocopy machine.• Scholarships for underprivileged girls to subsidize university costs – USD 1000 a year per girl to be put towards tuition, school materials, and transport.• Purchase of, and training in the use of, 2 computers with printers for the organization’s administration.

If you are interested in helping this project please contact Mr. Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official spon-sor by including it on this page.

Address: Maxaquene District, Maputo

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All Nations OrphanageAll Nations operates homes that take in abandoned, orphaned, and neglected children, some of whom are infected with HIV-AIDS. Their hope is to offer an opportunity and future for these children. AISM has recently started to work with All Nations at two homes in the neighborhood of Machava, Maputo.

Current Needs: • Painting of the homes – 50 liters of paint, 10 rollers, and 10 paintbrushes.• Garden Play gym – playground toys.

If you are interested in helping this orphanage, please contact Mr. Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official sponsor by including it on this page.

Address: Bairro da Machava, Maputo

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Warethwa AssociationWarethwa Association is an initiative sponsored by Timbila Muzimba, a well-known Mozambican contemporary band. They have been working for years with teenagers from the neighborhood and were recently granted some land by the government to consolidate their intervention activities. Their activities seek to keep teens away from a life of risk and to build the self-esteem of un-derprivileged teenagers. The association forms amateur percussion bands that perform around Mozam-bique. Through a holistic approach, the participants learn to build their own instruments with recycled material and they teach each other how to play. The association helps enrich the lives of teens as it promotes Mozambican tradi-tional culture. AISM is providing our students with the opportunity to support these teenagers and their orchestras.

Current Needs: • Building of a cultural center in Jardim neighborhood – 10x8 meter gazebo made from local materials, rustic construction, and stage. • Material to build 50 local material drums. • Sponsoring a year’s worth salary for an art educator to be based at the as-sociation.

If you are interested in helping this project, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official spon-sor by including it on this page.

Address: Bairro do Jardim, Maputo

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Iverca and Dumba Associations (Mafalala)IVERCA and Dumba are led by students and professionals and aim to promote and de-velop tourism, culture, sanitation and environment in Mozambique. These associations are imbued with a selfless spirit of volunteerism and the constant search for solutions to the problems that their particular class and youth in general face, punctuated by following the path of associations as a way to contribute to the development of the country.

Iverca focuses its activities in the Mafalala neighbourhood of Maputo, working with the area’s schools and associations to promote income generation and self-esteem. AISM is working with IVERCA and Dumba in their interventions in Mafalala, mostly with the Escola Primária UNIDADE 23. Activities will include a lot of interaction with the children, building, painting, and getting to know the historic importance of Mafalala.

Current Needs: • Building a jungle gym for the school• Building toilets – 4x3m, two toilets with a sink• 5 computers for teachers and training

If you are interested in helping this project, please contact Mr Limaverde at AISM. Please send us your logo and we will recognize you as the official sponsor by including it on this page.

Address: Av. Zedequias Manganhela, 591 – 4o andar, flat 5 – Bairro da Mafalala

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If you are interested in supplying some or all of the vari-ous needs of these projects, please contact our Service Learning and Community Outreach coordinator, Gabriel Limaverde.

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Service Learning and Community ConnectionsGabriel Limaverde - Coordinatorgabriel.limaverde@aism-moz.comPhone: +258 21 491 994Fax: +258 21 490 596Cell: +258 826752934

Gabriel Limaverde is passionate about the potential of grassroots community work to build a better world. For the past 15 years, he has been working with community-based and international organizations both in Brazil and Mozam-bique, leading and participating in social, educational and cultural activities. Gabriel holds a Masters degree in Applied Ethics, and believes in the concept of Ubuntu, in which we can define ourselves as people only through other people. In order to be all we can be, we need all other community members to be all they can be.

AISM – history, values and vision: The American International School of Mo-zambique’s provides a learning environment that inspires students to culti-vate their unique talents and perspectives, preparing them to contribute in purposeful ways to the world that they will inherit and shape. Our students enjoy a stimulating and balanced educational program that is rooted in the principles of excellence, ethics and engagement. Strengthening the connec-tions to Mozambique through our curriculum, engaging our students in age-appropriate, action-oriented projects, raising our students’ awareness of sig-nificant social issues and problems, and involving community members and community-based organizations in our Service Learning program is a priority for the AISM community.