ASEM
is a charitable organization founded in 1991 by Barbara Hofmann, in order to help children and young adults of Mozambique living in various difficult conditions to regain a life with dignity: it serves children in extreme poverty, victims of the HIV/AIDS, orphans and abandoned children.

ASEM was born to help them in their primary necessities, but above all, to reconstruct their identity and to promote their psychological, moral, educational and formative rehabilitation, as well as their reintegration as participating and active members of society.

Mission
To engage with children and young adults living in extreme poverty and to promote the socio-economic integration (re-integration) into their family or the community.

Objectives

• To improve the lives of the children and to safeguard their rights
• To realize and support programs for family reconciliation and reintegration of children and young adults living in conditions of extreme poverty
• To promote and develop activities aimed at psychological, moral, educational and formative rehabilitation of the children and young adults living in conditions of extreme poverty
• To support family reconciliation of the children, and the socio-economic reintegration of young adults that live in situations of extreme poverty,through personalized programs of participation
• To promote and participate in studies about the situation of Mozambican infancy, at the provincial and national level, to better understand their issues and needs
• To establish contacts and partnerships with national and international organizations, in order to support various initiatives in favor of the orphaned and vulnerable children

Learn more about our facilities in Mozambique
Learn about activities and child support programs
Our Founder, Barbara Hofmann

ASEM Canada has a fund with Tides Canada to allow tax receipting
Tides Canada exists to foster partnerships between resourceful donors and leading-edge charities that will mobilize lasting solutions locally, nationally, and internationally.