Elections for the new President of Mozambique were Wednesday and well......I haven't died......yet. Things have been a little crazy over here. In Mozambique there is two main parties. Frelimo is the ruling party which has been in power since Mozambique took its independence from the portuguese and is insanely corrupt. Then there is Renamo which is the rebel army that lives in the forest and starts war every few years. There is a third party that I love over here called MDM which is picking up momentum and will have success in future elections but is still too young to compete with the big dogs. The corrupt party keeps all the money in the country to themselves and they are filthy rich and the rest of the country suffers in poverty. Renamo (the rebels) don't like this and always try to put an end to it but they are just a bunch of crazy fighters of the jungle so they wouldn't do a much better job in running the country so mozambicans are without a good option to choose. Most of the people from where I am currently am living have joined the party of the Renamo and voted for them on Wednesday. However the corrupt government cheated and more or less won the elections by bringing in boxes and boxes of "prevotes" that were in favor of them from people in the jungle that"voted". The few people in the opposition party that tried to stop it and not allow them to cheat got shot. So long story short life has been a little crazy the last few days but I am still alive and things are calming down now.
Other than all this political madness I have had a great couple weeks here. I am having a ton of success in training people on their small businesses. It is amazing how far someone can go with a little knowledge. Although this country is suffering from political corruption it is amazing me how much it is growing right now. The investment company that I have created called MircroMoz Investments on the side of my Care for Life work has now focused in on three main projects for our first phase. We are doing a chicken coup, buying a small transportation bus and doing a potato business. All three are businesses can bring high returns to the investor while also helping the people who will run them. We have finished building the chicken coup and we will be receiving our first batch of 1,000 baby chicks on Thursday. People who will be the operators of these businesses have a percentage of the company and the profit. They are incentive based businesses designed to make the people who work them extremely well to do in African terms if they work hard and are smart. We believe that the impoverished do not lack intelligence, honesty or potential but we believe they lack opportunity. My companies goal is to invest in these great people and help mentor them on their journey of breaking the bands of poverty. It is an exciting time to be here in Mozambique and so fun to watch these people change their lives. I LOVE the african people!
I hope you all have a great week! I will share some cool life stories of some of the people here throughout this next week so I hope you will enjoy them. Here are some pictures!
#1 A 7 year old given the responsibility to babysit her baby sister every day as her parents go to work.
#2 The African Stroller.
#3 Top five greatest moms in the entire world!
#4 They haven't really caught on to the idea of the selfie yet.
#5 Two of my friends from the village. Both suffer from malnutrition issues.
#6 Neighbors of the chicken coup......they cant wait for the neighbor discount!
#7 The coup a couple days before finished
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