About Us

We started many years ago partnering up with Cooperativa de educação ambiental Repensar/Let’s do it Moçambique in several actions in the Country. We have been actively involved in actual cleanup operations in public spaces such as beaches, parks, reserves, cities and other areas.

The idea is to pass an educational message while doing something that will promote the well-being, health and safety of all the users of these facilities. It was overwhelming and worrying to see the state of some of these places.

We do small things that we find relevant: all plastic and glass bottles that are consumed in our Company and in our houses, are separated and delivered to one of the few programmes that processes these residues; we only buy charcoal for our camps that comes from a sustainable operation. With this we try to mitigate the huge deforestation that is being done in Mozambique, especially in the Northern areas; We clean-up the areas where we pass and camp: in the last few years we removed a few tonnes of rubbish from beautiful places.

This is probably one of the Areas that can solve all of the above, if tackled correctly. Poverty, lack of education and poor life conditions does not promote positive developments in Environmental and Conservation areas, mentioned above. Imagine that you are so poor that you cannot even guarantee a proper meal a day to your family? Would you be interested in solving the environment or conservation problems or would you choose to feed your family first? These questions put everything we know in perspective and it really makes us think that we need to effectively tackle poverty and lack of education as fast as possible, if we do want a better World.

In March 2019, Mozambique was hit by cyclone Idai, one of the worst cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. The Human and Natural disaster that occurred really damaged an already impoverished community – more than 1 million hectares of cropland were destroyed. When disaster struck this area, we at Mabeco Tours, immediately decided that we needed to do something about the future of our Planet, of our people, of our resources. We did the first active partnership with a local NGO, called Azada Verde. Like us, Azada Verde is small but very competent and effective. The best part of it all is that all the resources used by Azada Verde are directed towards the communities itself and to the projects they implement. Some of these projects are so simple but so significant:

Agricultural associations: improve production, increase income and diversify the diet of rural families. These associations empower women, who for the first time in their lives are disposing of their own income;

Schools of peace: local social initiative that fulfils the human right to education, health and food for orphans and extremely vulnerable children;

School food: ensures a diversified and healthy diet for more than 2.200 children in boarding schools in rural Sofala Province, ensuring food safety and healthy development;