Each One, Teach One (Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique)

Each One, Teach One is a Wassmuth Center donor-funded program pairing a sponsor with a village girl to fund the school fees and living expenses necessary to complete high school.  Research substantiates that the completion of secondary education not only improves a young lady’s opportunity and ability to support herself, but also improves the prospects for her children – and therefore, improves the village.

Participating students are high ability, low opportunity girls living in the villages surrounding Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.  Gorongosa National Park is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story. In 2008, the Government of Mozambique and the Carr Foundation (Gorongosa Restoration Project), a US nonprofit organization, signed a 20-year Public-Private Partnership for the joint management of the Park.  On June 7, 2018, the Government of Mozambique signed an extension of the joint management agreement of Gorongosa National Park for another 25 years.

By adopting a 21st Century conservation model of balancing the needs of wildlife and people, the Gorongosa Restoration Project is protecting and saving this beautiful wilderness, returning it to its rightful place as one of Africa’s greatest parks.

See it for yourself.

Each One, Teach One began when a delegation traveling on one of the Center’s annual Cultural Encounters retraced Nelson Mandela’s steps in South Africa, then spent several days in Gorongosa.  Meeting the girls motivated the group to make a difference – and the sponsorships began. Since that initial encounter, we’ve returned to Gorongosa National Park with two more delegations.  Contact the Center for information on our next venture to the African continent.

“Each One, Teach One” program in South Africa and Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

May 28 – June 5, 2023

The program cost is $4,979 based on double occupancy.  The cost includes lodging (two night in Johannesburg and six nights in Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park), breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, tours and activities, in-country transportation, international transportation between Johannesburg, South Africa and Beira, Mozambique, and guides. The program cost does not include the international airfare to Johannesburg, South Africa, travel insurance, passport and visa, single occupancy lodging or gratuities.

The deposit and registration deadline is February 1, 2023. Included in the total cost of the travel program, a $750 non-refundable deposit is a tax-deductible donation to the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”