Child Sponsor Mozambique

Today Mozambique is widely seen as stable and is one of the world's fastest growing economies. Despite this, the long years of conflict took their toll on the country's infrastructure leaving Mozambique in 183rd place out of 191 countries and territories in 2021 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country with a life expectancy of 59.32 years (2021). According to Mozambique's Ministry of Economy and Finance, from 2015 to 2019 the number of Mozambicans living in extreme poverty increased equating to 16.7-18.2 million people. The country's literacy rate is just 47% with males at 60% and females trailing far behind on just 28%. Mozambique is among the ten countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world at 13.2% of the 15 to 49 year old population.

Approximately one third of Mozambique's already high number of orphans at 2.1 million having lost their parents to the virus. Thousands of these children, an estimated 5000, live on the streets, however the exact number cannot be quantified. Despite significant progress over the years, only half of Mozambicans have access to improved water supply and less than a quarter (one in five) use improved sanitation facilities. Child sponsor programs in Mozambique focus on caring for orphaned and abandoned children, spreading HIV awareness, increasing food security and nutrition advice, improved access to safe water, health care and education and working towards an improved protection service for the many children who live away from home. You can help when you sponsor a child in Mozambique.