We were involved at Iris Global Ministries Children Centre, Zimpeto, Maputo in Mozambique from 2013 till 2015.
We were assisting in the technical side of the centre and were also, for us the most important part, dorm parents for 23 boys (8-11 years) and 4 teenage boys. Our purpose as dorm parents were to keep them clothed, mostly form a donation room, providing supplement for their stomachs (time between meals were always too long), help with school work and additional education, discipline, assisting supervisors staying with them in the dorm, additional Biblical education (we found things which we think are general knowledge, like love one another, that they don’t understand what is love) and just love them, by holding them when they get hurt, stick a plaster on or just give them a hug and individual attention.
There is a blog (Mosambiek Blog) which we kept for our own children for following what we did and experience in Mozambique but it is written in Afrikaans.