Welcome to the website of Awaken Mozambique Awaken Mozambique Inc is a charitable Incorporated Association undertaking micro finance projects in Mozambique.  The project primarily focuses on training and equipping local people to improve their communities with sustainable development and capacity building.  Awaken Mozambique is a project of Global Development Group, a Non Government Organisation which carries out humanitarian projects with approved partners. http://www.globaldevelopment.org.au/		How did Awaken Mozambique begin? In 2004, Dr Carol Dalglish from Awaken Mozambique's Australian Team visited Beira.  Carol had volunteered to provide seminars and training for micro-finance recipients in an existing microfinance project. Carol also planned to interview the micro-entrepreneurs as part of a longtitudinal study aimed at improving the delivery of this type of aid.
	What is the project? Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. Awaken Mozambique is an opportunity to help the people of Mozambique help themselves. They will develop local solutions to their local problems and improve their lives by using their entrepreneurial drive. It is anticipated that at least 400 businesses will be funded in the first 3-4 years. About 70% of entrepreneurs will be women and their businesses will be the means of survival for their families. QUT Brisbane Graduate School of Business will support this project with ongoing research.	Carol returned again in 2006. By then, the operator of the existing project had pulled out of Beira because of a lack of funding. What the project had left behind was an awareness that there were ways out of the poverty that was a legacy of Mozambique's troubled history.
A message from Dr Carol Dalglish  I was impressed by the people I interviewed, many of whom had spent the best part of their lives as refugees. They have been the victims of short term projects that have often left them without the means to continue to rebuild their world. The people that I met, whilst suffering abject poverty, have great initiative are concerned not only for their immediate families but for an extended family and the community and culture that has faced so many challenges in the past. Awaken Mozambique has at its centre, the intention to help these creative and hardworking people become self sufficient, providing them with the knowledge and skills to run an association that will link them with the resources of the west, and provide them with an opportunity to develop a business culture that best meets the needs of the locality. It is intended that this project will become self sustaining, so that the entrepreneurs of Beira are not vulnerable to the changes in funding policy. Dr Dalglish is an Associate Professor at QUT, Brisbane.  She has taught and consulted in Australia, England, South Africa, Europe and Asia. Her areas of expertise are leadership development, executive coaching, international issues in education and institutional development. She has published several books and many papers in these and related areas.
Find a way to get involved Can you sponsor one of the loan applicants waiting to start their business?   Can you contribute to the education and business training program that offers entrepreneurs the best possible chance of building a sustainable business?    Can you offer your time? All sorts of skills are needed by the Australian committee, including fundraising, administrative, grant-writing, IT, PR, graphic art, legal and accounting skills.   Please read through the website to find out more about how you can help. Our contact details are available on the contact us page.		Hopes had been raised, but for most, the hopes had not been fulfilled. Carol found however, that there had real improvements in the circumstances of the micro-entrepreneurs she had interviewed on her previous visit.  Carol met with members of the local community and agreed to try to find funding to restart the valuable project. She returned to Australia and gathered together the Awaken Mozambique committee, to continue and expand the work already begun.
	Ladies at a community meeting with Australian team, September 2008