Stories
Maninga's story is a real story.
Real stories often involve many steps forward and a few back.
It is one big story made up of lots of smaller stories of amazing individuals and situations.
World Cup Excitement
The World Cup 2010 in South Africa did not escape Mozambique! There was huge excitement at the prospect of it and the TV was brought out so all at VM and in the wider community could enjoy it. Flags were made for all the countries and the fixtures were...
Q. Guess what these 3 ladies...
A. They had walked a 34km round trip to get to the hairdressers and back for their wedding!
Candy Floss
One day, the news went out that a candy floss had arrived at a tiny cafe on the main road about 10km from VM. So it was decided that all the children and the elderly were coming on a trip to visit and enjoy it! Two elderly ladies sat in the front of...
British Airways Pyjamas
Slightly random that we have accumulated so many pairs of British Airways First Class Pyjamas but that was the case a couple of years ago.... It is lovely to be able to go to visit Vila Maninga with lots of gifts of the same thing as then everyone is...
Disasters...
We have had our fair share of disasters at VM....fires, floods, drought, cyclones - you name it.This area of southern Africa seems to get it from all sides. This particularly bad cyclone in central Mozambique in 2006 took the whole roof off one part...