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Sofala (Agenzia Fides) - After months of heated conflict, the two political forces that have been facing each other in Mozambique have signed a truce, but many families preferred to stay in camps or hide in the forest, waiting to be certain that this peace will last. They prefer not to return to their homes yet, but wait for the troops to withdraw completely from the area of Sofala. The very few people who have decided to return found themselves faced with a scenario of pure devastation: schools destroyed or vandalized, health centers riddled with bullets. A scene that has further devastated the people, with no resources and with winter around the corner.
Many children, after experiencing the horror of war, are now deprived of the right to education, health and basic rights. To alleviate this dramatic situation, CCS Italy (Centre for Development Cooperation Onlus), has promoted the Sofala Resilience Project. Resilience, or "return to normality" is the goal of this ambitious project which, starting from Tazaronda, wants to involve more than 100 thousand people in 11 communities in the province of Sofala, restoring full operation of school facilities and health centers, in order to bring boys and girls back to school and monitor their health and that of their families. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 31/10/2014)
